Man in the Context of the Transition from Technogenic Civilization to Post-culture (Notes of the Methodologist and Cultural Scientist)

Abstract

The concept of technogenic civilization currently needs to be rethought both in connection with the completion of the modern project and the crisis of modernity itself, and the formation of a new culture (post-culture). Technogenic civilization is a more complex concept than just scientific and technological development, it includes both F. Bacon’s project of mastering nature, and the formation of social institutions that accompany and support this project, and now, the requirement to minimize the negative consequences of scientific and technological development, as well as proposals for updating the semantic project of culture based on modern technologies. If, during the formation of a technogenic civilization, the requirements of independence and initiative were imposed on a person in terms of cognition of nature and market behavior, and vice versa, obedience to law and social norms, then today we can only observe trends in human transformation. There are several of them: differen­tiation of different types of a person in connection with different cultures and processes of socialization; blurring of certainty of boundaries and anthropo­logical realities (constants); the opposite process of anthropological averaging due to globalization and the Internet; isolation up to the isolation of different ways of life of a modern person; adaptation for an indefinite period of time of a person to catastrophic living conditions and new ethical principles, etc. It can be assumed that the transformation of a person will be seriously in­fluenced by projects for mankind’s exit from the modern crisis, especially the project to save our civilization. But in general, we are not talking about one tendency and processes of transformation of civilization and man, but about several, mutually influencing each other.