@article{ART002625736},
author={Kim Hong Jung},
title={COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets},
journal={Korean Journal of Sociology},
issn={1225-0120},
year={2020},
volume={54},
number={3},
pages={163-187},
doi={10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Hong Jung
TI - COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets
JO - Korean Journal of Sociology
PY - 2020
VL - 54
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Sociological Association
SP - 163
EP - 187
SN - 1225-0120
AB - In this essay, I examine the impact of the COVID-19 on social theories, and present the following three theoretical perspectives as major reflections triggered by the pandemic. The first perspective is to recognize the virus as ‘proto-agent’ and to impart the theoretical citizenship to the virus as more-than-human agent. Secondly, I will treat the theme of more-than-social sociality, by analyzing the semantics of the ‘social distancing’, and argue that the pandemic is actualizing a new type of image of the social, which is mainly represented by the topology of rhizomatic networks. Finally, I will present the new form of more-than-individual subjectivity, by analyzing the phenomenon of the droplet which constitutes the sprayed, distributed, and dispersed self. I will argue that we need to theorize the ‘porous body’ beyond the image of ‘contained individual’ to refer to the subject weaving the material relationship with environment that is interpermeable.
KW - more-than-human agency;more-than-social sociality;more-than-individual subjectivity;trans-corporeality;dividual
DO - 10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
ER -
Kim Hong Jung. (2020). COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets. Korean Journal of Sociology, 54(3), 163-187.
Kim Hong Jung. 2020, "COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets", Korean Journal of Sociology, vol.54, no.3 pp.163-187. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung "COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets" Korean Journal of Sociology 54.3 pp.163-187 (2020) : 163.
Kim Hong Jung. COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets. 2020; 54(3), 163-187. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung. "COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets" Korean Journal of Sociology 54, no.3 (2020) : 163-187.doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung. COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets. Korean Journal of Sociology, 54(3), 163-187. doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung. COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets. Korean Journal of Sociology. 2020; 54(3) 163-187. doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung. COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets. 2020; 54(3), 163-187. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163
Kim Hong Jung. "COVID19 and Social Theory : Centering on Virus, Social Distancing, and Droplets" Korean Journal of Sociology 54, no.3 (2020) : 163-187.doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.08.54.3.163