SLOBODA I/LI TEHNIKA: Traktat o de(kon)strukciji humanuma
THE CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNIQUE, THE DECONSTRUCTION OF NATURE AND THE REQUEST FOR DECONSTRUCTION OF FREEDOM

Author(s): Spahija Kozlić
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Ancient Philosphy, 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Existentialism, Marxism, Philosophy of Science
Published by: U.G. »HIJATUS«
Keywords: freedom; technique; techne; τέχνη; science; Heisenberg; Marx; cyberspace;
Summary/Abstract: The frame of potential interpretations of humanity in the current century, the century which opens new dimensions of socializing in the form of virtual relations – as it is provided by world wide web, encapsulates substantial theoretical flexibility as well as a broad historical and philosophical elaboration of the early Greek notion – techne. On the other hand, answers to these questions are not reduced to philosophical self-pity, lamentations and shyness of speculation or “technoblasphemous” reasoning, nor to technical fascination with “greatness”, which has been present in positivistic philosophy from the modern age and expressed in diverse aspects of the same positivistic philosophy. The complexity of answers to the above mentioned dilemma is deepened by the fact that the twentieth century radically redirected the technical dexterity of the governing over nature to the space of the broad spectrum of social relations. There is abundance of illustrations of such cybernetic intentions of social movements at the end of the twentieth and at the beginning of the twenty first century. Such illustrations are rooted in the ever-increasing conviction in the indispensability of the meaningful, technocatricly arranged society which is bereft of all forms of individual decisions - having in mind that such decisions are let to the groups of experts which inevitably eliminates individuals of the social responsibility. The scientific era, as the most common term of the contemporary technical and cybernetic expansion, is featured by the rule over nature which is substantially different from the previous era in the way that new challenge is enabled, namely the challenge in which techne is no more only Aristotelian potential of tailoring the forms which nature implies, but much more the establishment of the artificial reality, which is against nature implying mythification of science inspired by technocatric negligence in the form of dogmatic theories of the society of knowledge.

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