Technogenic Civilization Research Articles

Легитимность насилия в техногенном обществе

The author examines the transformation of violence as a way of survival into “violence of power”, characteristic of modern civilization, the legitimacy of its legitimization, the use of resources of the information network society, technogenic civilization to regulate internal and external state relations, and new management perspectives. The legitimacy of the activities of states that claim the right to identify weak, dying or failed states as the source of modern political violence, instability and threats, and to carry out "humanitarian missions" against them, is called into question. The types of violence that are logically built into the development system of modern technogenic society, such as economic, institutional, and informational, are considered. Attention is drawn to the effectiveness of new technologies for the introduction of military innovations and the development of military potential in support of external legitimate state violence. The inability of modern society to control and regulate increasingly complex information systems and the tendency of the authorities to proactively assess negative consequences and prevent the possibility of their occurrence are emphasized. The mechanisms of a technogenic society contribute both to the control of the legitimacy of power and provide the power with the opportunity to control society. Therefore, a culture of peace can serve as a new trend in the development of humanity.

THE ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS MATRIX IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY RESOURCE SUSTAINABILITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

The article examines the problem of resource sustainability of the Russian society in conditions of accele-rating rate of technic evolution and anthropogenic pressure on the natural world of the Earth. In this regard, the authors analyze the prerequisites for the environmental consciousness formation as a signifi cant structure of social self-organization related with the factors of ontological security, trust and human responsibility for the biosphere preservation. Research is carried out within the framework of an ecosystem approach, which emphasizes that’s the combination of biosphere and social resources ensuring the sustainable development of the global world. Setting of social psychology to activate the norm is used in the analysis of the motivation factors of pro-ecological behavior. The empirical basis is the statistical material of sociological surveys conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Re-search Center. At present, ecological consciousness resource is associated with a set of beliefs and values that guide person’s perception of the natural environment within the human life world as a self-suffi cient system interacting with the structures from technological and social spheres. There are various models of person’s behavior motivated by a combination of social norms and personal attitudes that form the semantic matrix of personal environmental consciousness. On the other hand, citizens’ concern for the environment state is identifi ed as a leading factor in motivating pro-environmental behavior. Presented statistical data from VCIOM surveys show the level of public awareness about the global signifi cance of the life safety factor in their region and public involvement in changing the situation. In conclusion, the authors emphasize that the formation of contextual structures of consciousness based on ecosystem settings gives rise to new stereotypes of worldview, thought and behavior. Therefore, this type of consciousness represents a signifi cant resource for the sustainable development of Russian society in condition of technogenic civilization

On the question of the modern technogenic civilization future and the spiritual and anthropological crisis

On the question of the modern technogenic civilization future and the spiritual and anthropological crisis

A holistic approach to addressing the global environmental challenge: the scientific-philosophical methodology

The search for a constructive strategy to overcome socio-economic and environmental imbalances in technogenic civilization is of great importance in modern science and philosophy. The article aims to discuss the scientific and philosophical potential of the holistic approach as a specific methodology and worldview. To achieve this goal, the authors clarify the understanding of the term "ecology" as an interdisciplinary field encompassing both natural and social aspects, which is the key to the modern analysis of environmental problems and the search for their solutions. The study of the doctrines of "new humanism", "world balance for mankind", and "new enlightenment", which were presented in the reports to the Club of Rome, allows one to find out the ethical and metaphysical foundations of the new paradigm of holism, its prognostic potential.

The ambivalence of technogenic civilization’s axiological foundations

The paper is devoted to identifying the specifics of civilizational dynamics of modernity through the theoretical reconstruction of Critical Theory, the key subject of which is the fundamental principles of Technogenic civilization. Based on the conceptual resources of the newest version of this research program, the ambivalence of the axiological foundations of Western culture and its foundation on the logic of domination-subordination is revealed on the example of the discourse and practice of tolerance. The heuristic potential of Critical Theory in the context of overcoming pathologies of modern civilization development is explicated in the article.

Ch.T. Aitmatov: a constructivist dimension of desontologization as a challenge of technogenic civilization

The article highlights the problem of dezotologization as a challenge to technogenic civilization. The author sees in the formation of the realities of a contemporary possible assumption in the interaction of man-nature-society. The basis of cultural self-identification and self-preservation of the Kyrgyz is explained as the unity of the nomadic spirit, the polymorphic Kyrgyz reality and the transcendent rebellion of freedom. Its types are shown: zaman – social time, abal – states, dynyyө – everyday life.This problem is revealed by humanist Ch.T. Aitmatov, who outlines the contours of the future concept of «Kyrgyz world».In his works, Ch.T. Aitmatov sets the preconditions for the formation of Kyrgyz ontological modernity. Boundless heroes of socio-cultural constructs come out from under the pen of the writer: the boy-fish, mankurt, tavro and falling mountains. These heroes of Aitmatov’s world warn of the deformation and depersonalization of the world, pushing the truths and blurring the boundaries. He derives his constructivist dimension of this socioanthropogenesis through understanding the inner world (presence, will, meaning and purpose) of his countrymen

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION IN THE CONDITIONS OF SHARPENING OF CONTRADICTION BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL

Анотація. The article is devoted to the analysis of socially responsible consumption as a type of social responsibility, caused by the rapid growth of the technosphere, i.e. the integration of technology into society and culture. The concept of "technosphere" reflects the property of technology remaining in the form of local controlled objects creating an integrated environment. The current state of technogenic civilization can be called a crisis due to the displacement of the natural by the artificial. A technized society, as a quasinatural formation, perceives the standards of technical activity as a natural horizon for the development of events. A socially responsible consumption policy, opposed to the actions of commercial corporations pursuing financial and economic goals at the expense of public welfare, in particular in matters of environmental protection, and social stratification, declares itself as a form of civil and political action.

Innovative Paradigm of Technogenic Civilization: Problems of Methodology

The article attempts to develop the methodological foundations of innovation as a new field of scientific research that studies innovation in science, culture and society. On the basis of the philosophical and methodological approach, the term “innovation” is conceptualized. The definition of the concept of innovation proposed in the article is based on the “procedural approach” in the interpretation of innovation activity and at the same time emphasizes the significance of the final result in the form of a new product that has commercial (social) value. In the context of modern trends in technogenic civilization, the essential features of innovative activity are revealed, its high degree of uncertainty and sensitivity to random changes and the influence of the external environment is revealed, it is shown that, along with organization, self-organization processes play an important role in it, manifested in complex, spontaneous changes accompanying the emergence of innovations. It is concluded that these features are evidence of the synergistic nature of innovation. The “rehabilitation” of synergetics is being carried out, which is considered as an ontological basis for building an innovative methodology. The article also formulates the basic principles of innovation methodology: openness of innovation, unity of linearity and non-linearity, probabilistic nature, the principle of systemic communication and organization, interdisciplinarity, the principle of relying on feedback. The possibility of creating an innovative method is being assessed. On this basis, the modern status of innovation is determined as an independent field of knowledge that has its own object, subject, functions, subjects, methodology, social mechanisms and the sphere of innovative consciousness, as well as other distinctive features of any particular science. A new approach to understanding the social and humanitarian expertise of high-risk innovative projects is proposed.

От гуманизма к постгуманизму: трансформация представлений о человеке в философской мысли

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of ideas about a human in modern philosophical movements of transhumanism and posthumanism. Once the highest value and the king of nature, the man-creator and the ruler of the world has turned into a many-sided and sexless creature that has lost passionarity and claims to leadership. Theoretical analysis. The process of dehumanization, which has globally declared itself in the information society, has formed a new system of values in which a person has ceased to be the center of the Universe, the image and likeness of God, on the contrary, his evolution has not been completed yet, and what he will become is still unknown. In modern realities, this transhumanistic message is realized in the form of a person losing his or her gender identity, striving to merge with nano-biotechnologies in their bodies and turning into a cyborg, creating their own digital twin. Conclusion. The posthuman value system is completely different from the traditional human value system. It is alien to the values of the family, motherhood and childhood, procreation. It is based on the values of technogenic civilization and digital culture. The posthuman is concerned only with his own existence and the quality of the technologies that support it. The man sung by the humanists is gradually leaving the stage of history.

РОЛЬ ПОЛИМОРФИЗМОВ ГЕНОВ СИСТЕМЫ БИОТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ КСЕНОБИОТИКОВ И АНТИОКСИДАНТНОЙ ЗАЩИТЫ В РАЗВИТИИ ДИАБЕТИЧЕСКОЙ НЕФРОПАТИИ

Introduction.The main etiopathogenetic mechanisms of the development of multifactorial diseases are genetic predisposition and environmental factors. A special role in the prognosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus is played by diabetic nephropathy, which leads to chronic kidney disease in its outcome. In the conditions of modern technogenic civilization, it is believed that the most significant contribution to the formation of predisposition to socially significant human diseases can be made by genes of enzymes of protective and adaptive systems of the body – these are, first of all, genes of enzymes of antioxidant protection and biotransformation of xenobiotics. The aim of the study was to study the role of polymorphic variants of genes of the xenobiotic biotransformation system and antioxidant protection (G681A in the CYP2C19 gene; G1293C in the CYP2E1 gene) in the development of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Material and methods. The study included patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (50 people) and healthy individuals (20 people). Molecular-genetic, clinical-laboratory and biochemical research methods were used. The reliability of differences in the distribution of genotype frequencies between groups of patients and healthy individuals was assessed by the test2, by the method of conjugate tables (four-field table). Results and discussion. The activity of the processes of free radical oxidation and lipid peroxidation increases many times in type 1 diabetes mellitus, which is confirmed in our study by an increase in the content of malondialdehyde products against the background of an increase in the activity of enzymes of the antioxidant defense system. This is especially evident in individuals carrying heterozygous polymorphism of the CYP2C19 (G681A) and CYP2E1 (G1293C) genes, which is also combined with a more pronounced decrease in kidney function in these patients compared with carriers of other polymorphic variants of the studied genes. Conclusion. Heterozygous polymorphism of the CYP2C19 (G681A) and CYP2E1 (G1293C) genes in combination with increased activity of antioxidant defense enzymes and xenobiotic biotransformation enzymes leads to a more severe course of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Идеал красоты в жизни науки (вчера, сегодня, завтра)

The devotee of Beauty Nikolai Ivanovich Kiyashchenko believed that the aes­thetic should permeate all spheres of life and any work. He thought of Beauty as the basis of a high culture and, accordingly, a worthy development of a person, a harmonious co-evolution of a person, society and nature. Researchers have re­peatedly raised the topic of beauty in science in literature, but with a new itera­tion of scientific, technical and cultural development, the concept took on new meanings. Plato did not think of the ideal of beauty separately from the ideals of goodness and truth, which is reflected in the concept of good. The idea of a synthesis of thought, word and action passes through many cultures. In the an­cient Russian mentality, good as an ethical aspect of thought at the level of its origin (thoughts) was conveyed through the concept of justice – “direct knowl­edge of the truth”, an impulse that originates in the depths of the heart and does not require proof. Modern transitional era proposes a leap in cognitive evolution: from the differentiation of cultural spheres to their convergence on the path of dialogue, interpenetration, and the emergence of synthetic forms of creativity. The aesthetics of life of science returns to the origins of the synthesis of science, art and religion, but on a new basis. The concept of post-non-classical rationality by V.S. Stepin leads to synthesis, which implies a wide dialogue between science and non-scientific forms of cognition and experience, cementing the space of creative contacts. The objective aspects of beauty are embedded in the funda­mental categories of natural science. In a technogenic civilization, science aes­theticizes its tools. Thought in action is realized in engineering, design, ecodesign.

Civilizational Foundations of Socio-Humanitarian Criteria for Evaluating Technological Innovations

The paper states that the civilizational foundations of socio–humanitarian criteria for evaluating technological innovations are, first of all, the value-normative systems of each individual civilization, and their modification inevitably either leads to a civilizational crisis, or is its consequence. Such crises themselves are considered not so much from the standpoint of their assessment (positive or negative), but based on ideas about their systemic nature – as a kind of an error in the functioning of the system, occurring either from its insufficient ability to adequately respond to external challenges, or from inconsistency in the pace and direction of development of its individual parts. In this article, the civilizational foundations on which the criteria for evaluating scientific and technical innovations are based on the following considerations: 1) the idea that modern civilization belongs precisely to the technogenic type, based on the works of V. S. Stepin; 2) the methodology of studying civilization as an autopoietic recursive system. According to the conclusions of the article, the modern technogenic civilization does not have the fullness of the grounds necessary for the formation of a consistent holistic system of socio-humanitarian criteria for evaluating technological innovations, however, such grounds may arise provided that the current value and world outlook crisis is overcome by eliminating the contradiction between the heuristic and teleological parts of the existing worldview.

The concept of technogenic civilization as an essential component of universal civilization concepts

The concept of technogenic civilization as an essential component of universal civilization concepts

The ambivalence of modern technology at the stage of technogenic civilization

The article focuses on defining the essence of modern technology, its ambivalent characteristic and determining its significance in the structure of the technogenic civilisation. The aim is to determine philosophical, methodological and scientific direction of research into the possibilities of practical application of the systems approach in civil aviation to ensure flight safety. It is revealed that the dual importance of technology includes making sense of it, using technology in its essence and finding ways out of the problems created by technology and technological civilisation. The results of this study have shown and confirmed that a systematic approach can be used to improve the quality of aircraft.

Human nature transformation in the context of ecosystem recovery

The article deals with the problem of preserving human identity as a representative of Homo sapiens in the context of ecosystem recovery in the frame of the global environmental crisis deepening at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It analyses different points of view in modern sciences and philosophy to the problem of human nature, as well as natural and socio-cultural factors leading to the transformation of human nature within the accelerated development of technogenic civilization. The article outlines the positive and negative trends in the socio-anthropological transformations of human nature associated with the use of the latest biotechnologies, genetic engineering tools, pharmacology, etc.

Об актуальности антропосоциоэкологического подхода в философской антропологии и философии цивилизационных процессов

Abstract. The authors of the article present the idea of an anthroposocioecological approach in philosophical anthropology and philosophy of civilizational processes, working on the approved state budget research topic “Anthroposocioecological configurations of modern philosophy of the XXI century”. Attracting the scientific thought of academician V.S. Stepin, who identified such major global crises of technogenic civilization as ecological and anthropological, problems of “transhumanism”, the concept of “inorganic body of civilization”, universals of civilizational and cultural development, the article reflects modern philosophical knowledge, rethinking the concept of “nature — man — society — individual” from the point of view of the anthroposocioecological approach. The main part of the article formulates the prerequisites and essence of the anthroposocioecological approach in the context of modern challenges and examines the philosophical and ethical component of the anthroposocioecological approach. At the same time, the authors single out the anthroposocioetic component, placing in the center an ethical problem that goes beyond the boundaries of ethics proper as a philosophical science, and which in modern knowledge falls into a broad ideological field and practice-oriented actions. The essence of the anthroposocioecological approach in modern philosophy is characterized by ideological and ethical universals, including universal life values. The relevance of the anthroposocioecological approach is due to the significance of such a supreme macroethical universal as human dignity, starting from the virtue of feeling one’s own subjective psychologically experienced dignity to the conscious recognition of state-national and universal dignity in the new multipolar world order. In the light of the latest innovations in computer technology, the authors pay attention to the problems of power, responsibility and dignity in a multipolar world, which, according to the authors, are associated with an anthroposocioecological philosophical and prognostic approach, given the powerful technological progress and the “clash” of technogenic and traditionalist civilizations. The authors express the hope that an anthroposocioecological philosophical approach based on value universals in the future will take place in the analysis of Russian, Asian and European positive experience in the formation of a new type of intercultural interaction. Among the practical goals of the anthroposocioecological approach, it is important to cooperate at different levels of corporations, global communities based on ideological and ethical universals. At the end of the article, it is argued that the anthroposocioecological approach, due to a new stage of civilizational development, rethinking human dignity in a multipolar world, is an urgent problem in modern philosophical anthropology and philosophy of civilizational processes.

TECHNOSPHERE: PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES

The global technological environment, which mediates the interaction of mankind with the biosphere, carries technogenic and environmental hazards and serious anthropological and social risks. Today there is a tendency in which every improvement of the technogenic system ultimately increases its negative impact on nature on the principle of negative feedback. In such a situation, an objective assessment of the technosphere’s characteristics is necessary for timely harmonization in the relationship “Human – Natural Environment”.
 The purpose of the article is to conceptualize ideas about the technogenic path of human development and to introduce the concept of “ecological technosphere” as a new stage of coevolutionary relations between nature and technogenic civilization.
 The research is carried out within the framework of the concept of post-classical science, a structural and functional approach, postphenomenology, actor-network theory.
 In the article, based on the concepts of “technique”, “technology”, “technocenosis”, “technological environment”, an ontological analysis of the concept of “technosphere” is proposed, its essential characteristics and risky scenarios of development are highlighted.
 The article was carried out within the framework of the project “Socio-ecological monitoring of the technical environment of the region: a socio-cultural approach” (RFBR Grant 20-311-90060 Graduate students)

Social Distancing and the Deficit of Presence (a Philosophical Reflection on the Covid-19 Pandemic)

This paper argues that if the COVID-19 pandemic turns out to be a man-made risk (А. Giddens), i.e. an unforeseen consequence of a person's behavior and actions, then, in order to avoid such fatal contingencies that occur so unexpectedly, it is necessary to change the type of behavior and actions that have been established in the culture of the Modern Period. People have been forced to observe the spatial order during the pandemic. Social distancing, self-isolation, the Red Zone, and other spatial limitations have made people aware of the deficit of presence and the lack of independent, active participation in life. On the one hand, the novel coronavirus has returned us to an awareness of the biological, natural origin of human existence, which has been forgotten by culture (science). On the other hand, the practices of social rationing and restriction have revealed the influence of various forms of alienation – social, political, economic, and cultural – on the fate of each individual. Introducing the bio-principle (the virus) into the social, cultural, and political space radically changes the relationship between people and nature. This situation forces us to contemplate the meaning of the concept of culture, which received its definition in the 18th century and is understood as non-nature, as reflected in the formula culture versus nature. This paper shows that the cultural ideal of human activity, established in modern times, is the reason behind the alienation of technogenic civilization and social forms of life from nature. By destroying nature and turning it into material for people's various techne, people found themselves in conflict with their own life. Culture has lost its inner meaning of the presence of the world and of an individual, which dissolved in various interpretations and ideas. Contemporary history is moving towards establishing a culture of presence, where the world is viewed not as a mere material to be used but as an area for humans to engage with. Today, we see the assertion of the right to difference and the right to the presence of diversity – in nature, culture, and politics (the struggle for a multipolar world) and in the personal domain (selfies, blogs, chats, etc.).

New hunt for Sataur

The author suggests that the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, that humanity faced in the 21st century, can be considered as a reaction of the planet Earth nature to the aggressive man-made behavior of the modern civilization. If tensions arise in the noosphere, and the law of the struggle of species for existence is the way the living sphere exists, then there must be a counteraction between the "wild" life and the "wise" life. Perhaps the sudden appearance of SARS-CoV-2, that so "skillfully" resists all the tricks of the human belonging to technogenic civilization, makes it clear to the mankind that the type of attitude to the world that was chosen by Western European civilization and assumed a global character is flawed and requires, if not a change, then at least a significant correlation. Stanislav Lem's story "The Hunt for the Sataurus" tells about a robot that was accidentally damaged and started doing unpredictable actions that are dangerous to people's lives. A group of spaceport armed people is intent on neutralizing the damaged robot by organizing a hunt for the "crazed" robot.The new hunt for the Sataur - the hunt for the virus of the COVID-19 pandemic - is different from the one presented in Lem's story. The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not the result of a "damage" of something but the result of such civilization development, that is based on the opposition of culture and nature. Therefore, the victory over SARS-CoV-2 requires change in the cultural framework for the civilization development.Humanity should learn a lesson from the hunt for the coronavirus COVID-19 its time to get serious about modifying the values of our culture and developing a new ethics that would orient its categorical imperative not to the first, but to the second person (YOU, not I, determine the rightness of the act).

Техногенная цивилизация и новые формы неравенства

The author draws attention to the change in the social structure of society, the emer-gence of new social groups and forms of employment, which is characteristic of tech-nogenic civilization. Negative aspects of the use of modern technologies are noted (such as the possibility of total state control, a change in society's attitude to the pri-vacy of personal information, the transformation of economic and labor relations, the transformation of specialist skills, desocialization). Hidden negative aspects are pointed out – increasing inequality from legal, social, economic, moral – to anthropo-logical, biological and genetic, as well as the emergence of an even more dangerous and new form of inequality associated with access to the latest effective technologies and the commercialization of services based on biotechnology. The emergence of the precariat as one of the modern forms of labor inequality is investigated. The question is raised about the person's perception of the pace of socio-technological transition and the adaptation of this economic structure to a new reality.