Event Construction of Reality: Social and Political Opportunities

Abstract

The article deals with the problems associated with the events and their role in the formation of the concept of reality. The issue of event-driven construction of reality requires a new ontological understanding in connection with the transition to the information society, in which most of the events that affect the concept sphere, is not casual, but human-made. During the formation of the post-industrial society, the event was not just an event, but a “special” event, an occasion for news. In the context of dynamically developing digital technologies, special events go beyond a convenient marketing tool and become unique elements of creating a range of new and hybrid realities, being in an interdisciplinary field. The purpose of the study is to consider the little-studied evolution of the event into a special event on the example of its role in the formation of the modern socio-political space. Also, there was a need to determine the role of events as a function of managing the generation of realities, functions able to overcome interdisciplinary barriers and link different levels of stratified social reality on the example of the study of the level of power. For the study, the author used the traditional methods of philosophical analysis and reflection, logical-dialectical analysis of the subject, the post-classical principle of complementarity of descriptions. As a result of consideration of the problem, it was possible to determine the main functions of special political events in the construction of socio-political reality, to determine their ability to integrate reality, divided by subcultural barriers. Special political events, as communication channels of a new type, can help to solve the crisis that has arisen as a result of the mutual isolation of the Humanities and Natural Sciences, can promote integration, joint institutionalisation and development in the information society.