A Systematic Approach and Description of the Sociality of Our TimeAs a Condition for Designing a Postculture

Abstract

The article discusses the conditions for designing sociality in the processes of transition to new cultures, including specifically the process of transition to post­culture. The author shows that, starting with I. Kant, one of such conditions is a systematic approach. In this regard, he analyzes the features of the systematic approach and shows that the latter contains systemic concepts (whole, systemic­ity, connections, conditionality, synthesis and analysis, etc.), as well as a special methodology for constructing reality. Logically, this methodology is close to the logic of modern design, in particular, it is based on the priority of synthesis over analysis, involves the coordination of all constructions, requires distin­guishing between three levels of the object being studied or created – the whole, the middle level and the lower one, usually related to individual activity. Then, the implementation in history of a systematic approach to sociality is discussed: for protosystem social structures of the Middle Ages and system social structures of the New Age. The situation of the transition to post-culture and the features of the sociality of our time are characterized. In the latter, the author distinguishes between two processes – the crisis and the expansion of social structures of modernity and the formation of new forms of sociality (network communities, metacultures, the convergence of socialist and capitalist forms of production and management, the formation of a new ethics, etc.). The last part introduces a scheme for a systematic description of the sociality of postculture. The author concludes that the systematic approach to the project of post-culture sociality should be based on the description of sociality in the language of social sciences and involves the choice of a humanitarian version of the systemic approach.