Society virtualization as the main source of modern utopianism

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2313-8416.2017.102316

Keywords:

society virtualization, virtual reality, utopia, mediareality, simulacrum, social reality, transformation

Abstract

The article is devoted to major sources of utopia in the modern conditions of society virtualization. The author draws attention to the effectiveness of the study of this problem based on the simulacrum concept, according to which virtual reality appears as the organized space of simulacra, utopia is in turn defined as simulation of social reality. Then the joint roots of virtual reality and a modern utopia are opened

Author Biography

Vera Okorokovа, K. D. Ushynsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University Staroportofrankivska str., 26, Odessa, Ukraine, 65020

PhD, Associate professor

Department of World History and Methodology of Science

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Published

2017-05-31

Issue

Section

Philosophical sciences