BETWEEN TWO DANGERS: TECHNOLOGY AND VIRUS

МЕЖДУ ДВУХ ОГНЕЙ: ТЕХНИКА И ВИРУС

Pogorelskaya, Elena (Погорельская, Елена) () and Chernov, Leonid (Чернов, Леонид) ()
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Pogorelskaya, Elena (Погорельская, Елена): Humanitarian University
Chernov, Leonid (Чернов, Леонид): The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, 2020, 56-64

Abstract: Introduction. The 2020 viral pandemic put humanity in a forced isolation environment. This crisis situation provoked the total inclusion of technology in the modern dialogue at different levels of connections and relationships. This phenomenon does not only demonstrate the enormous importance of technology in the modern world, but also raises the question of the essence of such a “mandatory” dialogue partner. The aim of the study is to raise a question about ontological essence of technology, formulating a hypothesis about the involvement of the “technical” in the symbolic world. The authors use the phenomenological approach that makes it possible to see behind an array of diverse human experience interacting with the “technical” — the anonymity of the essence of technology. The usual attitude to engineering and technology as a tool that performs certain initially laid down tasks is unsatisfactory, since the importance of technology in modern civilization is much wider. In addition, the authors use the analytical approach that makes it possible to see behind scientific theories and facts a certain “logic of behavior” of science and technology aimed at overcoming the nature of things. Symbolic technology passes all natural and cultural boundaries.

Keywords: technology; virus; non-human objects; nature; technical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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