행성의 시학－ 인류세와 기후위기, 새로운 서사를 위한 시론

This paper explores how a new narrative imagination that breaks away from the anthropocentric thinking of Modernity can be initiated in the era of the Anthropocene and the Climate Crisis. Diagnosing the current crisis as stemming from Modern Thought, Spivak sought to find a way out of it through the concept of the “Planets.” The notion of the planets, which presuppose that humans are not the center of the earth, and that the Earth is not the center of the Universe, involves a transition away from the anthropocentrism and subjectivism that were the foundations of Modernity. By urging us to confront the world as Non-Human, and Other, planetary thought invites us to look beyond the limits of Modern narrative forms, especially the novel (Roman). This is because the Modern novel is the result of the compartmentalization and humanization of time and space. A new narrative form is needed to capture the massive temporal and spatial changes brought about by the Anthropocene and the Climate Crisis. Bakhtin’s “chronotope” is a conceptual device that creates unfamiliar time and space by creating an event and integrates it anew. Poetic metaphor, a powerful binding device, can be used to construct a world that is different from the novel, a Modern narrative that relies on proximity metaphors. Through this power of poetic imagination and composition, Prefigurative Politics will propose a new narrative that goes beyond the anthropocentric Modern narrative and includes interactions with Non-Human others.