시각체계와 전쟁 테크놀로지의 상관성에 대한 고찰: 폴 비릴리오의 지각이론과 ‘아덴만의 여명’ 작전을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to explain the problem of main agents of visual recognition in the modern picture images, perception of technology and visual system in modern picture images based on the theory of Paul Virilio. Advancement in technical environment makes revolutionary change of the relations between main agents of visual recognition and picture images. This mechanism is a very important analytical concept as the process which is composed of main agents of visual recognition that indiscriminately accepts excessive picture images in recent years. Paul Virilio looks into the speed acceleration by technology as the characteristic in 'dromology.' According to Virilio, the politics of speed and the media revolution have caused contemporary space and time to disappear. This could endanger democracy. When the speed reaches absolute status, authoritative power delocates, deterritorializes, and endocolonizes human life by maintaining a condition of techno war. This study tries to make clear the theoretical relations between speed, visual system and power. There are three kinds of revolution of dromology in his theory. He contemplates his theory based on the phenomenology through advanced transporter, the revolution of real time electronic media and the transplant revolution. There is a similar phenomenon of the techno war in the operation 'Dawn of Gulf of Aden' as his point of view. Operation 'Dawn of Gulf of Aden' was a naval operation by the Republic of Korea Navy against Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea. The South Korean forces retook the ship by force on January 21, 2011 in a successful boarding action that resulted in the death of eight and the capture of five out of seventeen pirates. This operation shows us the distorted benefits of the digital technology to human beings and society. Paul Virilio and his texts show the ventilation of our situation and ethical question about technological advancements and visual system. Ultimately, he insists that human beings can control the speed against the growth of science. In particular, his attention to the value of space as the basis of humanity is taken as a strategy for the recovery of the human condition. This study attempts to draw the clue to how to overcome the status of dependence on technology and techno phobia by considering their self-control.