Speaker
Description
The lifeworld refers to the continuity of a world that existed before us and will continue after us. The continuity and permanence of the world are the conditions for having history and culture. Thus, without a genuine sense of the world, we not only lack a ground that stabilizes embedded temporal and spatial changes of our lives, but are also destined to lose a perspective that is common to all of us. As a common ground, the world mutually transforms us and is transformed by our acts of perception, recollection, and expectation. In the ongoing digital transformation, this lecture will examine the gap between the thing-character of the world and its digitalization; what it conceals, and how it ultimately affects our capacity to judge appearances in our contemporary reality. By exploring the intrinsic relationship between crisis and judgment, I will argue that crisis is not merely a process of a breakdown, but has a revelatory potential that can open up new possibilities for transformation and may offer an alteration to our current lifeworld.
| Keywords | lifeworld, crisis, judgment, world, culture |
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| sanemy@istanbul.edu.tr |