Podmiot ludzki czy nieludzki? Nowe wymiary sprawstwa w obliczu rozwoju technonauki
Human or Inhuman Actor? New Dimensions of Agency in Relation to the Development of Technoscience

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to analyse the notions of subject and agency, which are part of contemporary political science, in terms of their new definition and interpretation through the prism of assumptions and schemes of system analysis. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: Globalization processes have led to great transformations in the world-man is no longer the only cause of changes. The research problem is related to the departure from the anthropocentric perspective in social sciences and the reconceptualization of the traditional understanding of the subject and agency with particular emphasis on the actor network theory. Analysis and critique metods and synthesis of scientific literature were used in the text. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: First attention was focused on the mutual relations between technoscience and society, taking into account selected technological solutions. Then the idea of posthumanism and the issue of non human agency were analysed. The last part of the text concerns the new dimensions of subjectivity and is an attempt to redefine traditional concepts. RESEARCH RESULTS: Elements of the material world significantly change reality. Consequently, the category of subject in political science requires reformulation as it includes the human and non human factors. Traditional definitions are no longer relevant to the processes taking place in the world. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Contemporary social sciences must take into account the changes taking place in the world, so it should abandon the anthropocentric perspective and focus on broader approaches, including the agency of non human factors. The subject should be analysed as a relational and hybrid being that consists not only of man but also of his environment. In the age of technoscience and its influence on every aspect of life, it is a necessity.

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