2025· Vestnik of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University· Vol 25, pp. 116-122· 0 citations
Abstract
The problematization of the “information human” (Homo Informaticus) is highly relevant in the context of the relentless development of informatization and the digitalization of the country’s economy and society. The concept of homo informaticus emerged as a philosophical and anthropological response to the transformation of human ontology under the conditions of exponential growth in digital technologies and global information networks. The term emphasizes the emergence of a new type of personality – a subject whose identity, behavior, and modes of thinking are shaped by continuous involvement in the processes of collecting, processing, redistributing, and generating information. The ethical dimension of this “digitized” existence significantly determines the future of the citizen who is expected to build a radically new society. Therefore, we aim to emphasize the growing impact of the information society on the behavioral and practical aspects of the human citizen.
A new kind of logic, a non-propositional, dialectic “Logic in Reality” (LIR), applicable to real systems and phenomena, as the “missing ingredient” required for such a theory.
Digital reality is currently ceasing to be a local technological environment, becoming a significant component of physical and sociocultural interactions and acquiring the status of a mode of human existence. Digitalization processes are facilitating the emergence of new technologies and the interweaving of digital, physical, social, and mental realities. The boundaries between these phenomena are blurring, giving rise to anthropological consequences. This circumstance requires a relevant conceptual framework that captures the hybrid nature of contemporary reality, which determines the relevance of turning to the concept of «post-digital complexity». The aim of this article is to substantiate the heuristic potential of the concept of «post-digital complexity», outline its conceptual features, and document the anthropological consequences (redefinition of subjectivity, the crisis of analog boundaries, distributed and asymmetric human agency) of the recognition of this phenomenon. The methodological tools of the work include historical and philosophical reconstruction, an interdisciplinary approach, and a dialectical method. This paper presents a conceptualization of the concept of «post-digital complexity», highlighting its key properties (opacity, nonlinearity, emergence, and dynamic stability). The author proposes to consider the concept of «post-digital complexity» as an ontological and value-laden characteristic of contemporary human existence. Post-digital complexity is defined as a state of hyper-connectedness and interpenetration, in which differentiation between the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual, loses explanatory power. The study demonstrates the relevance of this concept to post-humanist discourse and documents the epistemological (the impossibility of an external observational position), ethical (the value-laden nature of algorithms), and anthropological implications of recognizing post-digital complexity. The scientific novelty of this paper lies in its substantiation of post-digital complexity not as a property of individual technical systems, but as a characteristic of contemporary human existence. Post-digital complexity captures the asymmetry and distributed agency of modern humans and non-human actors (algorithms, interfaces, digital platforms). The practical significance of this work lies in the fact that the identified properties and methodological principles of post-digital complexity research (the rejection of an external observational stance and the inadequacy of analytical reduction) can be applied to the analysis of socio-cultural practices generated by post-digital culture, as well as to the development of educational and ethical strategies relevant to contemporary processes.
P. Opolev· Intellect. Innovations. Inve...· 0 citations
The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the transformation of post-material values in the context of the digitalization of society and to determine their impact on the search for meaning and the identity formation of the contemporary individual. The article examines changes in the traditional ethos under the influence of the digitalization of social practices, the algorithmization of communication, and the proliferation of platform-based forms of interaction. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of the concept of “algorithmic post-materialism”, which is defined as a new form of reproduction of post-material values in a platform society. It is shown that the digital environment acts not only as a space for realizing the values of self-expression, autonomy, and self-realization but also as an independent mechanism for their production, legitimization, and dissemination through algorithmically organized communication. As a result of the study, it is established that digital platforms are becoming significant institutions for shaping value orientations and the symbolic recognition of the individual. It is revealed that the search for meaning in a digital society acquires a predominantly individualized character and is increasingly carried out through the practices of digital self-presentation, networked interaction, and the construction of digital identity. Finally, it is established that digitalization transforms the ways of reproducing post-material values, shifting the processes of meaning-making into the domain of algorithmically mediated social communication.
Alfiya R. Sabitova, Elena Yurevna Krotova· Manuscript· 0 citations
The authors examine the concept of digital culture, the elaboration of which within the culturological approach remains incomplete. It is noted that the coexistence in the scholarly discourse of such categories as “infor-mation culture”, “media culture”, and “digital competence”, with the absence of clear boundaries between them, generates a methodological inconsistency. An analysis of Western and Russian academic discourses reveals a fundamental divergence in their axiological foundations: the Western tradition describes digital culture as an immanent logic of technological development, whereas the domestic scholarship foregrounds the value trajec-tory of digitalization and its consequence for cultural identity. Employing the methodology of comparative-conceptual and structural analysis, the authors executed a distinction between the following concepts: “digital culture of society” and “digital culture of the individual”. At the same time, the last is defined as a historically developing system of meanings, norms, practices, and value orientations that constitute the subject’s interac-tion with the digital environment while preserving his or her identificational integrity.
Kuanysh A. Kushkimbayev, Aleksandr E. Kalashnikov, Mikhail V. Kononov· Общество философия история к...· 0 citations
The article presents a philosophical and anthropological investigation into the crisis of meaning in the era of total digitalization, conducted through a hermeneutic analysis of the literary and philosophical legacy of Leo Tolstoy. The methodological foundation is comparative analysis, which allows for the identification of structural analogies between the forms of alienation described by the classic author and the pathologies of contemporary information society. The paper analyzes the crisis of identity under conditions of hyper-informativity, interpreted as a hypersimulation of meaning. The authors argue that the architecture of digital platforms, based on the attention economy and algorithmic regulation, gives rise to a decentered subject. This subject’s identity fragments into a multitude of simulacra, while the subject’s cognitive resources are subjected to exploitation, leading to informational-energetic alienation and a loss of sovereignty of consciousness. The dialectic of alienation is demonstrated: from interpersonal (passion as a metaphysical abyss between the “Self” and the “Other”) to intrapersonal (the drama of a human’s relationship with their own existential vacuum). These texts are considered complementary projections of a single philosophical problem. The study proceeds to analyze the paradox of technological slavery. The paper reveals the dialectic of apparent dominance and real dependence in the relationships between humans and artificial intelligence, where the instrumentalization of the “Other” turns into the self-instrumentalization of the human who voluntarily integrates themselves into the logic of algorithmic efficiency. A transition from historical forms of anthropological alienation to a fundamentally new one – the datafication of Dasein – is stated. This is a process of ontological reduction in which the unique human existence is substituted by a calculable Data-image, and the living stream of experience is fragmented into discrete data-points. As a result, intersubjectivity, understood in the tradition of Max Scheler, is reduced to a transactional exchange of signals, devoid of emotional depth. Tolstoy’s legacy is positioned as a rigorous hermeneutic key for diagnosing modernity. The proposed response to the challenges of the digital age is not technophobia, but Tolstoy’s form of existential asceticism aimed at affirming the irreducible truth of human existence in the face of its increasingly perfect algorithmic simulation.
E. Kogay, Andrey V. Kuznetsov, Viktor L. Akapev· Вестник Пермского университе...· 0 citations
Under the backdrop of globalization and digitalization, the efficacy of cultural symbol interpretation directly affects the construction of national community consciousness. This study takes the mixed public art landscapes of Xiangshan, Portuguese style, and Bay Area culture in the "One Country, Two Systems" convergence point of Hengqin as a case, using the "technology - symbol - identity" analytical framework and mixed research methods to explore the mechanism of AI empowering the modern interpretation of cultural symbols. The study defines AI as a "symbol extraction tool" rather than a meaning-interpretation subject. Through three dimensions of big data mining, computer vision analysis, and AIGC/VR interactive experience, it systematically expands the breadth, depth, and activity of symbol interpretation. The study reveals that cultural symbols, as the "identity codes" and "emotional bonds" of the national community, their modern interpretation needs to balance technological empowerment and meaning protection, promoting cultural identity to transform into community consciousness; the participatory empowerment characteristic of AI can break the elite monopoly of interpretation, but it also faces the risks of algorithm bias and meaning fragmentation. The paper provides theoretical support and practical paths for the planning of public art in cross-border cultural fields.
Xi Chen, S. Meng, Lin-Na Guo et al.· International Conference on...· 0 citations