Digital technology and modern society: the facets of postphenomenological analysis

Abstract

Background. In modern conditions, the problem of comprehensively considering technology not only as a phenomenon, but also as an intermediary in human relations with the world, is of particular importance. In other words, an important question that requires a search for answers is the following: how technology appears in the daily consciousness of a person, what it means for a modern person and how it changes his relationship with the world. Materials and methods. The research materials include modern works on postphenomenology, as well as scientific articles on digitalization. The research is based on the postphenomenology of D. Ihde, as well as the work of E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion. Methods: theological, phenomenological, postphenomenological. Results. The phenomenological and postphenomenological framework of the theological interpretation of technology and its place in modern society is outlined. Technology is considered primarily as a means of human interaction with the world, aimed at ensuring earthly life. The presented concept of technology is used to interpret modern digital technologies and their impact on humans and their relationship with the world. A number of contradictions in the use of modern technologies by modern people have been identified. It talks about the expansion of the human life world, which is simultaneously accompanied by the increasing integration of modern technical devices into social life and the increasing risks of eroding humanity. Conclusions. Technology, created and improved to provide more and more comfortable conditions for physical existence, has reached a stage in its development when it determines a person's thinking and behavior, often distancing them from spiritual life. From a postphenomenological point of view, technology leads to the blurring of the boundaries between subject and object and the blurring of the human. Modern digital technologies determine many aspects of our lives: our perception of our own physicality, the perception of others, the perception of time, and our attitude to events taking place in the country and in the world.