신자유주의적 자본주의 시대에 표류하는 동․서양의 개인: 이해준의 «김씨 표류기»와 데이비드 플렛저의 K를 중심으로

Abstract

In this century, the power of capital defeats everything, and it makes human nature get more inhumane and cold-blooded. Paul Verhaeghe who is the author of Identiteit affirms that new types of identities appear due to the inhuman capitalism of this neo-liberalism era. What I would like to do is to study individuals in this neo-liberal capitalism era with two different film and play which are Castaway on the Moon and K. Each text shows two different views of individuals which are Eastern one and Western, so I can study with a comparative view of different cultural sides. Hae-jun Lee’s Castaway on the Moon describes a survival story of a man with no name in order to satire inhuman and miserable sides of capitalism in this 21th century. David Pledger’s K also shows the similar sides of dirty capitalism with a man called K who resists the coercive hierarchy. Individuals in both texts are getting destroyed when the stories go on, but I could find out how to overcome the corrupt neo-liberal capitalism in the texts. Lee’s Castaway on the Moon shows a way of reconciliation between highest and lowest people with so-called karma capitalism. It emphasizes social unification with understanding of each other and public wealth. Pledger’ K shows K’s resistance spirit with parrhesia which Michel Foucault said in his last lecture, and it means courage to tell a truth. I strongly insist that the corrupt neo-liberal capitalism can be cured when people adhere to the spirit of karma capitalism and parrhesia.