ScholarWorks@중앙대학교

초록

In Staying with the Trouble (2016), DonnaJ. Haraway rigorously equates speculative fabulation with scientific fact, arguing that "[speculative fabulation] is storytelling and fact telling ... the patterning of possible worlds and possible times."1 Speculative fabulation, then, is an act of science-guided imaginative creativity not only for probing an uncertain or unforeseeable future but also for reconstructing the strata of the past whose excavation could throw new light on our present world. The essay film takes this direction as it activates multiple, often heterogeneous discourses based on the research and quotation of materials associated with seemingly disparate pasts and extends those discourses toward reflexive accounts of present issues. A speculative form of essay film and video is particularly capable of achieving a productive fabulation of science and imagination by foregrounding a filmmaker's acts of observing and reflecting on images and visual technologies, as well as their cultural underpinnings, through visual techniques.