인간성 확장의 담론과 주체의 소외: 레이 커즈와일의 특이점 이론에 대한 비판적 고찰

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This paper analyzes Ray Kurzweil's Singularity theory not as a technological prediction, but as a powerful discourse on “expansion of humanity”. While Kurzweil's technological optimism seems to promise salvation from biological limits, as N. Katherine Hayles points out, this results in reducing humans to information and alienating “embodied experience”. Furthermore, from the perspectives of Fredric Jameson and Yuval Noah Harari, the Singularity discourse is an ideological narrative that replaces the decline of political imagination with a technological utopia, and is akin to a myth that turns science into a “fantasy of omniscience”. This paper draws on alternatives from critical posthumanism, such as the works of Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, to argue for the importance of contemplating communal ethics and co-evolution, rather than individual transcendence through technology.

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