The Evolution of Homo Economicus: the Resurrection of Commoners

2018
Hyeng Joon Park, Richard G. Wilkinson, Michel Bauwens, Kate Raworth, The Evolution of Homo Economicus: the Resurrection of Commoners, 2018. lecture series. Commissioned by the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. Seoul Musuem of Art. 2018. Photo: studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Yoo Yonggi+Hong Choelki)
Hyeng Joon Park, Richard G. Wilkinson, Michel Bauwens, Kate Raworth, The Evolution of Homo Economicus: the Resurrection of Commoners, 2018. lecture series. Commissioned by the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. Seoul Musuem of Art. 2018. Photo: studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Yoo Yonggi+Hong Choelki)
Hyeng Joon Park, Richard G. Wilkinson, Michel Bauwens, Kate Raworth, The Evolution of Homo Economicus: the Resurrection of Commoners, 2018. lecture series. Commissioned by the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. Seoul Musuem of Art. 2018. Photo: studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Yoo Yonggi+Hong Choelki)

The lecture The Evolution of Homo Economicus: the Resurrection of Commoners consists of three forums. At the times of the great turn, the researchers and panels discuss major issues to seek a principle and human subject completely different from those of the previous industrial era. They also encourage the acknowledgement of the seriousness of the ecological, natural, and social crises brought about by developmentalism and the limits of homo-economicus, a humancentered selfish existence that was created during the capitalist industrial society. Their position, thereby, explores the potential evolution of human beings that would be appropriate to the new material conditions of the 21st century and the 4th Industrial Revolution—that is, this evolution should be one from competitive human beings in a world of the survival of the fittest to a human species, based on commons, that live together with others. This lecture aims to recognize the limits of our society, which has exclusively pursued material/ economic development, and to open a field for communication so that participants can suggest new ways of living and can discuss diverse discourses related to new living conditions.

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