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The All-Human Space of Transformation: Technology and Culture

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Technologies in a Multilingual Environment (PCSF 2022)

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The aim of the study is to determine the connection between technology and culture in the context of the transformation of human existence, considered in the philosophical works of Friedrich Dessauer, Oswald Spengler, Pavel Florensky, and the literary works of Alexander Bogdanov and Andrei Platonov. Methodology and research methods. The study is based on a comprehensive approach that allows to identify the features of the analysis of the connection between technology and culture in the context of goals set in the works of a number of both philosophers and writers of the first half of the 20th century. Research results. An attempt to determine the essence of technology in its relationship with culture is presented in the concepts that underlie the philosophy of technology. Spengler focuses on the metaphysical essence of technology understood as tactics of living. Dessauer reveals the ontological status of technology associated with the formation of God-given forms of Being. According to Florensky, technology as a creative part of Culture is a way of reuniting the human and the divine. The discussion of the results. The meanings of life and knowledge can be set by other ways of mastering the world in addition to philosophy, literature is a unique way of familiarizing with the experience of understanding the world. Conclusions. Outside the broad ontological and anthropological context of the analysis of technology, it is impossible to set the boundaries of the reorganization of society, determine the current parameters of culture, and predict the future of the man-technology-culture system.

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The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-011-00462 A, Friedrich Dessauer’s Philosophy of Technology: Epistemology and Anthropology of the Realistic Creativity Theory.

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Bernyukevich, T. (2023). The All-Human Space of Transformation: Technology and Culture. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) Technologies in a Multilingual Environment. PCSF 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26783-3_2

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