The Becoming of Non-Linear Knowledge - New Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Hopes

Sergey A. Kravchenko

Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 14, issue 4, 191-202

Abstract: In the article it is stated that non-linear knowledge is being born and it has come into life due to ‘arrow of time’ effect (I. Prigogine) according to which all the matter is being developed increasingly quicker and in a more complex way. The author extends this effect to the dynamics of knowledge showing that the modern knowledge acquires the quality of reflexivity, takes on a completely new vector of non-linear development within ‘turns’ in sciences. The passage from linear to non-linear knowledge produces, correspondingly, more complex manufactured risks including risks of dehumanization that are specially analyzed. The monitoring of these risks implies that value oriented non-linear knowledge should be taken into account that includes not only the achievements of natural, technical and social sciences but also of the humanities. Among new challenges to humanity there appeared modern vulnerabilities manifested in increasing structural dysfunctions of a social complex system and/or a techno-natural system that take forms of ‘normal accidents’, ‘collateral damage’, etc. It is stated that main challenges of vulnerabilities lie in the domination of pragmatic values of modern knowledge.

Date: 2018
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