Criticism of digital-biological integration in the project of Chthulucene

Davydov Igor A.

10.54398/1818510X_2022_3_153

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The posthumanistic trend in modern ontology describes the world in the structure of numerical relations that form the sphere of existence without a person. Eliminating the anthropological factor from the postmodern reality of numbers, posthumanism represents a schematic topic in which there is something peculiar to a machine, but not to a person. Anthropological reality, transformed in the process of the fatal path of Western philosophy from Socratic rationalism to the "death of man”, was faced with another existential choice: either to finally renounce the subjectivity that defines a person, being nothing, or to annihilate in the stream of digitalization codes. The latter scenario is being developed in the concept of " Chthulucene" by the representative of accelerationism Donna Haraway, who asserts the ontology of sim-poetry based on the tentacular interaction of living and inanimate representatives of the Earth. In this project, a person acts as a compost, condemned by the whole course of his history to disappear. But, like any categorical statement, this thesis requires a critical analysis from the point of view of the Russian philosophical tradition and other interpretations of the definition of man. A person limited by the frames of biology and exclusively scientific interpretation receives a lacuna in his being-in-the-world as belonging to a non-existent, spatial discourse, but to a temporal, ontological plane of being, according to M. Heidegger. The task of D. Harraway is the elimination of the ontological boundary between man and being, the transformation of a person belonging to time and subjectivity into one of the ontic constructs related exclusively to the space of objects. The subjects of Haraway's sim-poetic world are calculated and objectified using mathematical methods that allow overcoming subjectivity in this ontic scheme, but it is impossible to overcome what is not in ontics, but is given to a person: a sense of time and insight into the essence of things, a vision of unreadable meaning, its generation in the process of authentic understanding of poetry as not a collective spatial production, but the expansion of anthropological reality through art.

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