Кінець смислу як кінець історії. Онтологічний аспект свободиud(The End of Sense and the End of History. Ontological Aspect of Freedom)

摘要

У статті розглядається проблема істини та свободи в контексті розвитку глобального мережевого суспільства. Зазначається, що нівелювання модернових вимірів суб’єктності та гуманізму несе загрозу як цінностям свободи, так і базовим передумовам існування людини як творчої та мислячої істоти. Поширення ультраліберальних, трансгуманістичних ідей та прогрес електронних технологій розуміється як перший крокudу реалізації постмодернового проекту «Нелюдини».ud(The article deals with the problems of truth and freedom in the context of development of the global network society.udThe author notes that grading of modern dimensions of subjectivity and European humanism threatens the values ofudfreedom and the very basic preconditions for existence of a human as a thinking and creative being. Thus spreading ofudultraliberal, transhumanist ideas and the progress of electronic technologies mean the first step in realization of postmodern edition of the project of the Superman – meaning exactly the project of the Nonman. This situation leads to the end of the Enlightenment project with its humanism, logocentrism, rationalism and modernism. As a result, contemporary society lacks true freedom – and even lacks privacy that is still claimed to be some kind of value. It seems that the most prominent literary, cinematographic and philosophic dystopias are coming true in the 21st century, proclaiming the end of modernity – that is the end of history itself. The eccentric ideas of Max Stirner, advancing towards social chaos and ethical anarchy in the middle of the 19th century – nowadays form presentable social discourse of never-ending struggle for egoistic individual «rights» and «liberty». The man of today is no longer the titanic Worker, who mobilizes elementary natural forces and defies outer reality – but rather the first one of the Eloi breed. While total encoding ofudsocial and inner sensual experience into an all-sufficient electronic stream of signs in the end deprives mankind fromuddirect and ingenuous touch with being – the bell of history tolls for the future of humanity. Thus we are facing time,udwhen freedom is suppressed in the most delicate, yet extremely effective way – as the intrinsically human dimensions of existence are being revealed and manipulated, and then artificially constructed by technological network, reducing space for «inner transcendence» almost to null. The only possible alternative for this scenario is the new voluntarism as a key to the upcoming turn of a certain alter-modernity.)