Love Your Robots: 베르나르도 페르난데스의 감성적 로봇

Abstract

This work focuses on a post-human society and “more-than-human” entities through the robotic worlds drawn by Bernardo Fernandez(Bef), based on the views of new materialist and ontological theories. As a representative SF author in Mexico, he presents his own unique worlds in which the boundaries between reality/virtuality, nature/culture, and humans/non-humans are broken, and a different dimension of time and space exists. By introducing affective robots in places where humans are absent, Bef contractively raises questions relating to human(e) life and ethics in a posthuman society. By analyzing Bef’s diversified forms of robots, this work examines both how Bef problematizes anthropocentric, human-centered, and binary conceptions and his suggestions for alternative ethics in a post-human or rather, more-than-human society that challenges neoliberal and anthropocentric coloniality. In this sense, exploring Bef’s robotic worlds provides a new perspective on hybrid and complex life beyond human-centered visions.