그녀에 나타난 인간과 기계의 공진화

The Coevolution of Human and Machine in Her

This paper analyzes the relationship between human and machine in the movie, Her, as a form of coevolution. My discussion includes the following information. First, I will examine the context of the discussion on the continuous relationship of humans and machines through that of humans and animals. Second, I will examine the evolution of human by machine through the concept of ‘the extensions of man’ by technology of Marshall McLuhan and the study of ‘the technology as a medium for realization of human virtuality’ of Gilbert Simondon. Third, I will examine evolutionary aspect of Artificial Intelligence(A.I.) in Her through the Gilbert Simondon’s perspective that machines are evolving beings. Forth, I will emphasize in detail how the movie Her specifically represents the Human-Machine coevolution.Fifth, I will explore the hybridity of posthuman through Katherine Hayles’s the study of the Configurations of posthuman subjectivity, C. B. Macpherson’s “possessive individualism”, Edwin Hutchins’s “distributed cognitive system”, and Bruno Latour’s “Actor-Network-Theory”. For conclusion, I will re-emphasize the Human-Machine coevolution and comment on how the movie Her not only criticizes liberal humanism, but also makes us to imagine new life in the posthuman form.In various works of art the Human-Machine difference, relationship, and love usually lean towards the two extremes of utopia and dystopia, the movie Her presents the idea that the only way for the human species to survive in a posthuman society is for humans and machines to influence one another and evolve together.All in all, my research explores how the movie Her specifically represents the Human-Machine coevolution.