Dongkwon Seong Lab

Modern Western philosophy is reconsidered as a history of the Science of Feelings. Through major thinkers from Descartes to Martin Luther King Jr., the course examines the body and mind, desire and feeling, freedom and education, society and civilization, while critically considering different philosophical accounts of human nature and happiness.

Students develop an understanding of major ideas in modern Western philosophy and the capacity to understand questions concerning human beings, culture, psychology, and society anew from the perspective of the Science of Feelings.

The twelve-episode Netflix Korean drama 『모두가 자신의 무가치함과 싸우고 있다』 is studied alongside Spinoza’s Ethics. The course analyzes anxiety, jealousy, lethargy, love, hatred, fear, the desire for recognition, and feelings of worthlessness in the drama, asking how such feelings arise and change. It also investigates how Korean drama expresses human feeling and relationships through narrative and audiovisual form.

Using Spinoza’s theory of the affects, students analyze characters, relationships, desires, and narrative, and understand how Korean Wave media organizes human feeling into cultural and audiovisual forms.

How do feelings become stories, and how do stories take cultural and artistic form? Centered on Spinoza’s Ethics, the course understands feeling through the interaction of body, ideas, relationships, and social environments. It examines how desire, joy, sadness, love, hatred, hope, and fear form individual and collective narratives. Theoretical inquiry is then connected with the field research and artistic practice of ART LAB X, extending observation and analysis into curating and exhibition.

Students use Spinoza’s ontology, epistemology, and theory of the affects to analyze how feeling and narrative form identity, social relations, and cultural meaning, and extend this inquiry into observation, analysis, curating, and exhibition in actual art contexts.

All sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes are reconsidered from the perspective of the Science of Feelings. Rather than treating the text simply as a manual of divination, the course approaches it as a classic concerned with change, the emergence of feeling, and the principles of human life within the relation between humanity and nature. Across thirteen of the fifteen weeks, all sixty-four hexagrams are read sequentially, examining self-preservation, trust, love, anxiety, conflict, learning, freedom, cooperation, self-understanding, and self-healing.

Students develop a systematic understanding of all sixty-four hexagrams from the perspective of the Science of Feelings and explore the emergence and transformation of feeling, the capacity for life, and freedom within the relation between humanity and nature.

从情感科学史的角度重新阅读西方近现代哲学。 课程通过笛卡尔到马丁·路德·金等主要思想家的著作， 探究身体与精神、欲望与情感、自由与教育、社会与文明等问题， 并批判性考察不同哲学家对于人的本性与幸福的理解。

理解西方近现代哲学的核心思想， 并培养从情感科学的视角重新理解 人与文化、心理和社会问题的能力。

将Netflix韩国电视剧12集 《모두가 자신의 무가치함과 싸우고 있다》 与斯宾诺莎的《伦理学》结合阅读。 课程从情感科学的视角分析剧中人物的焦虑、嫉妒、无力感、 爱、恨、恐惧、被认可的欲望以及无价值感如何产生与变化， 并研究韩国电视剧如何通过叙事与影像表现人的情感和关系。

以斯宾诺莎的情感理论为基础， 分析电视剧中的人物、关系、欲望与叙事， 理解韩流媒体如何将人的情感组织为 文化与视听表达形式。

情感如何成为故事， 故事又如何呈现为文化与艺术的形式？ 课程以斯宾诺莎的《伦理学》为中心， 把情感理解为身体、观念、关系与社会环境相互作用的结构， 探究欲望、喜悦、悲伤、爱、恨、希望与恐惧 如何形成个人与群体的叙事。 同时将理论研究与ART LAB X的田野研究和艺术实践相连接， 研究观察与分析如何进一步发展为策展与展览。

以斯宾诺莎的本体论、认识论和情感理论为基础， 分析情感与叙事如何构成身份、社会关系与文化意义， 并将这一研究进一步扩展到真实艺术现场中的 观察、分析、策展与展览实践。

从情感科学的视角重新阅读《周易》全部六十四卦。 课程不把《周易》仅仅理解为预测未来的占筮之书， 而是把它理解为在人与自然的变化关系中 探究情感发生与人生原理的经典。 在15周课程中的13周里，将依次阅读全部六十四卦， 探究自我保存、信任、爱、焦虑、冲突、学习、自由、合作、 自我理解与自我疗愈等问题。

从情感科学的角度系统理解《周易》六十四卦， 并在人与自然的关系中探究情感的发生与变化、 生命能力以及自由的问题。