The Idea of Law in the Context of Technosocial Systems Evolution

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the prospects of transformation of the idea and concept of law as a result of technosocial systems development. The author reconstructs genesis and evolution of technosocial systems and substantiates the thesis about connection between these systems and the prospects of understanding the nature and meaning of law. The paper analyzes the latest developments of management theorists, sociologists and philosophers that reveal new contours of the nature-society system and theoretical and legal significance of conclusions to which they lead. The author pays special attention to the correspondence of the orders of action and the orders of knowledge in conditions that are determined by the disciplinary matrix of the science and scientific knowledge, as well as the interaction between theoretical discourse and social practices. In this context, the paper analyzes the impact of technosocial systems on legal awareness, legal worldview, rulemaking and law enforcement practices. The author makes a hypothesis about an essential change of law under the influence of digitalization of social life, hybridization of knowledge and its disciplinary transformation. The author focuses on cultural and historical determinism of the ideas and ideals of humanism and highlights the connection between the natural-scientific revolution of Modern times and the concepts of natural law and social contract. The author analyzes Michel Serres’ concept that proposes to supplement the social contract with another contract — the contract with nature. Another "thought experiment" suggests an essential change in the idea and concept of law.