Anthropological discourse metamorphoses in the digital age

Abstract

The article discusses the features of the transformation of anthropological discourse in the realities of the digital age. It is presented that up to the present time each epoch offered a somewhat reduced and simplified model of a person who was affected by determinants of the same nature. The author fixes the main features of postmodern thought, which make up a complex of factors influencing the existence of a person. It is traced how a person of the digital age is able to independently form himself, while it is justified how he loses his subjectivity. It is substantiated that the increase in contradictions is also not eliminated due to the possession of information. The characteristic features of new values and opportunities of the digital age are revealed. The direct dependence of a person and his social success on the development of technical and technological achievements and their possession is determined, and the influence of the mass media is also taken into account. The forms of human segregation and the trajectory of dehumanization are outlined. In conclusion, generalizations are given that constitute the theoretical and methodological basis for further conceptual understanding of a person in the digital age.