CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FREEDOM AND CONTROL THROUGH THE PRISM OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Cover Image

КОНЦЕПТУАЛІЗАЦІЯ ЗВ’ЯЗКУ МІЖ СВОБОДОЮ І КОНТРОЛЕМ КРІЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ЦИФРОВІЗАЦІЇ
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN FREEDOM AND CONTROL THROUGH THE PRISM OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Author(s): Oleksandr Ihorovych Obedkov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: freedom; control; digitalization; totalitarianism; paradox of freedom; paradox of tolerance; disciplinary society; society of control; “Industry 4.0”;

Summary/Abstract: The article attempted to understand the meaning of the connection between the categories “Freedom” and “Control” in the modern conditions of digitalization and the active implementation of information and communication technologies. The definition of freedom is determined, in particular, its positive and negative forms are described. In addition, a retrospective analysis of the phenomenon of the totalitarian regime with its main components and characteristic features was carried out in order to draw an analogy with its updated form of the control “society”, where the place of human freedom and the meaning of control can be clearly traced. The proposed author”s view on the meaning of freedom in the conditions of total digitalization, as well as opportunities to preserve it.

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