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Urban and the Common: Exploring the Alternative Common in Post-modern Times

Lee,Sang-bong 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study explores the meaning and value of reconstruction of the public, specifically a conversion from the state-oriented public to a new public centered around civil society, focusing on the concepts of “urban” and “the common.” Starting from an analysis of the relationship between humans and the common, this study first discusses how the common has existed and changed over the historical transition from modern to post-modern times. In addition, this study seeks to define the nature of the common, and to establish the best practices for achieving it under a transformed post-modern social structure. Confronting the logic of the system of capital and state, post-modern reflection on the lost common life leads to the need of a new urban common centered around civil society. While the state common in modern times has paid attention to homogeneity, the urban common should be “a common of differences” based on individual autonomy and singularity, and “an alternative common” that can overcome the logic of capital and the state. This study offers an answer in the common to the question of how the multitude, consisting of diversity within a majority, can attain unity in the post-modern turn.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.