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Towards the real history - A way out of the maze of dualisms

In dealing with the entire history as the social prehistory of humans, Marx enunciated in fact a thesis that the transition to a new social forming would mark the entry of humanity into its real history. The human being from its appearance (as Homo sapiens), exists in the same time as a product of the biological reality (as a product of evolution) and as a product of what Ollivier Dyens calls technological reality. The transformation of our perception and representation of real is going to change the definition of the human because it transforms what feeds our ontology. The popularity of the belief that technology is the primary force shaping the post-modern world is a measure of our growing reliance on instrumental standards of judgment. And our corresponding neglect of moral and political standards, in making decisive choices about the direction of society. There are sometimes good reason for sorting out the difference between social reality and science fiction, but we should not actually believe that somehow these categories are ontologically pre-established different things. The tyranny of clarity is about the belief that any semiotic practice is immaterial. It’s the same mistake as thinking that the virtual is immaterial, says Donna Haraway in an interview recently.

Marx; real history; technological reality; our ontology; immaterial; humanity

Cjeloviti rad objavljen u časopisu Republika, 11, 2008., str.92-103.