We often use terms like family community, village community, and local community. The word “community” is used in various ways worldwide and generally brings a positive meaning. However, it’s essential to question whether we truly experience a sense of “community” in the many contexts where the term is used. With the disappearing of traditional family and village conception and the rapid advancement of mobility technology leading to a more anonymous and fluid society, it could be argued that the tangible, fixed being of the community has faded away. Nevertheless, this lecture emphasises the necessity of forming a community as a utopian ideal in modern society. This lecture aims to highlight the significance of community movements that promote “cooperation” and “inclusivity,” which are difficult to achieve in today’s fluid and anonymous society, alongside illustrating cases of such movements.
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What is Community? Is It Necessary? The End of Community as Being and the Necessity of Community Building
Lecture Information
- Date2018-12-04
- LocationSeongdong Foundation for Arts & Culture
Instructor
Cheong, Seonghoon
Ph. D. philosophy in Seoul National University/ former research professor in Korea University and former HK research professor in Institute for Urban Humanities, University of Seoul. Currently working as a lecturer in Seoul National Univ., Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology. Published a number of journal articles about tension between diffusion media and success media in digital age, limit of communitarian community and realistic community in modern conditions, Problems left by the debate between Habermas and Luhmann, etc.