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CONCEPTION OF THE INTEGRAL PERSON FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF TECHNOPOLY
Tadeusz MICZKA1
CONCEPTION OF THE INTEGRAL PERSON FACED WITH THE PROSPECT OF TECHNOPOLY
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (86-87) 2015, Publication date: 8 November 2015
Keywords: model of culture, technological everyday reality, disintegration, integral person
Abstract The aim of the article is to consider functionality of the model of integral man in the theory and in practice of information society. It is assumed that this model-like conception of man can be still an inspiration and act as a role model for multimedia users and for modern education, despite the fact that the contemporary world is dominated by the phenomena which encourage disintegration. This assumption is illustrated with interpenetration of two models of culture. This interpenetration results in promulgation of the idea of pluralism; it also opens and deepens the sense of indefiniteness, liquidity, indecisiveness and undecidability .This dynamic of changes in human thinking and acting is treated as a characteristic quality of technopoly. It is understood as technological everyday reality which creates possibilities for their further positive development. The dissertation focuses mainly on interpersonal communication processes which are dominated by technology, the processes which result from internauts’ behaviour. Models of contemporary man’s identity are based on the following elements: characteristics of new communication competences of multimedia users and such phenomena as infofreedom and infoactivism and presentation of megatrends as directions of the development of technological everyday reality. The supremacy of models of weak identity over strong identity allows us to form a conclusion that technological man outruns ethical man; it also justifies the postulate that members of information society should be shaped first of all educationally according to the conception of integral person, which exposes the sense of internal and external balance.
Institute of Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies, Univeristy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
E-mail: tmiczka@interia.pl