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THE WORLD IN CRISIS OR IN POST-CRISIS ERA? AN ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFYING MAIN TRENDS
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK1
The Future of Civilization – Transformations of the World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Keywords: crisis, networks, trends, post-capitalism, digitization
Abstract The article is meant to identify and describe the six trends which I find essential from the point of view of shaping the emerging world. Unfortunately the real world cannot be put into a lab in order to measure the values of forces’ vectors and assess the resultant direction. Probablythis will never be possible in a complexe reality. Nevetherless, I take up this task and try to chacterize these trends as follows. • Sustaining the core of the „old” capitalism • Ultimate triumph of the digital system. Rise of the new social operating system • recultured economy: „soft” levers of development • The Trump’s effect: symptoms of the anty-globalization rebellion • Heralding of post-capitalism – in the search of an alternative • Transhumanism as ideological project and a new practice
Instytut Socjologii, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych Szkoły Wyższej Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie
E-mail: kazimierz.krzysztofek@swps.edu.pl