Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale (Jun 2024)
VIRTUALIZARE ȘI FIINȚARE ÎN „SFERELE VIRTUALE ALE ÎMBRĂȚIȘĂRII”. LUMEA AFIRMĂRII VS. LUMEA DEVENIRII
Abstract
How should we understand virtualization? Why should we think virtualization? Indeed, man is homo faber and in this respect the human being is the creator of instruments par excellence. In human history, every historical phase was in a significant manner defined by the renewal invention and renovation of instruments. Isn’t this overthinking an instrumental technological development that was only to be expected from man? In this perspective, nothing is really new: the age of virtualization gains shape via the opportunities presented by this new instrument of virtualization and capitalized by the human beings and by their societal structures. However, the greatest enabler of our times is the greatest transformer and the greatest challenge. One should notice: a challenge is a more or less actualized as a threat, too. Virtualization means in our interpretation connection via assessment, measurement, a numeral way of intellective relation. Here lays the root of the threat. Virtualization is interpretable as assessment and measurement. This is at least problematic, if not dangerous. The number of visualizations, the number of clicks, the number of “likes”, such numbers are descriptions of goals in a digitalized world. Virtualization is the foundation of the world of great numbers where individuals and their alterity represent for the big data algorithms something to be corrected. Virtualization is living in the „virtualization hug box”. The numerous likes, the conformism in all forms and shapes as well as the assessable behaviour represent commercial and educational desirable outcomes via digitalized interactions. The alternative to conformism is for the individual to face indignation, outrage and marginalization – the stern exile among the ranks of “them” who are irreducibly opposed to “us”. The world of becoming, based on the human relations with hopes, imagination, personal projects is fading away. Solidarity without empathy for alterity equals conformism or hypocrisy, both in educational and in social phenomena and actions.
