Sci-fi 영화에서, 도대체 새로운 종의 출현은 어떤 의미인가?

Abstract

The disaster situations on Earth represented in sci-fi films since the 2000s are the result of the development of human scientific civilization, which is like the “law of causality” of physics. For example, putting aside climate change, viruses, resource depletion, energy shortages, and nuclear warfare, etc., the crisis situations that have occurred in space are also the result of human-related causes. Furthermore, contact with alien races is more for information exchange than for destructive purposes, as they are superior to humans. This is consistent with the idea that the exchange of information through contact with alien races is the only way to overcome the imminent and desperate crisis on Earth without the human race perishing. Humanity's advanced scientific and technological civilization is, after all, the underlying cause of the desperate crisis that has blown over all the earth, perhaps having now reached or already passed its critical point. After all, humanity has thus longed for an 'overman' beyond man as a solution to the extinction of species and the destruction of the Earth, and this has been represented in various ways in many sci-fi films since the 2000s. We call this 'overman' a 'new species' or 'new kind'. This paper attempts to clarify what is meant by this “new species”.