Il "mito" della comunicazione in assenza di comunità e la sua demitizzazione. A partire dalle riflessioni di Byung-Chul Han

This paper intends to address the issue of communication in a broad sense as dominant within a social as well as existential landscape currently impoverished by the sense of community. This does not mean to moralistically evaluate this prevalence of communication on supposed substantial substrates, considered more authentic, but rather to consider in what sense the absence of community, with the disappearance of its shared rituals and symbolic narratives, first of all entails for society and for the individual a mythization of the communication process and, ultimately, the relative demythization that we are perhaps witnessing. These considerations are brought forward here starting from the reflections of the social philosopher Byung-Chul Han, an indefatigable critic of today’s society defined as the “neoliberal regime” and author, among other things, of the recent volume The disappearance of rituals, in which the topic of current events of a “communication without community” is central.