Reflecting the theatralization of life in the prospects of transhumanism

Abstract

The crisis state of society at the beginning of the 21st century is increasingly described as chaos. At the same time, the desire of people to theatricalization of many types of their activities remains unchanged. This gives grounds to consider the theatricality of being as a sociocultural constant, immanently inherent in humanity. The fact that it persists even during periods of cardinal changes, social transformations, civilizational shifts, breaking cultural stereotypes, destruction of traditional institutions and discreditation of established ideals can be explained by the fact that theatricalization of life allows people to cope with sociopsychological discomfort and existential fears, caused by the feeling of total chaos. At the same time, people are faced with the problem of increasingly complex self-identification, which is largely facilitated by the ideas of transhumanism, which actively shatter the already weak notions of what a human being is. One of the approaches to solving this scientific problem is proposed to consider human activity in the context of theatricality of being.
 The purpose of the article is to comprehend the practice of theatricalization of various types of human activity in the context of the ideas of transhumanism. The methodological strategy of this research is based on the concept of theatricality of socio-communicative manifestations of culture. Analysis of the theoretical material showed that in the conditions of transhumanism, the development of criteria that make it possible to determine whether a human is still a human or has already turned into something else becomes an urgent task. One of these markers is proposed to consider the desire of a human to theatricalization of various types of their activities. Being one of the sociocultural constants immanently inherent in humanity, theatricality will be present in people's lives as long as they remain human, as long as they feel the need to articulate their social communication.

Концептуальні Персонажі-Метафори Як Прояв Театральності Філософських Рефлексій

“…Надихнувшись цим філософського-літературним експериментом, одеські філософіні, професорки різних університетів Одеси, відважилися на свій експеримент: влаштували філософський перформанс «У колі світла. Імпровізація в античному стилі» (2021), де через образи давньогрецьких богинь представили деякі сучасні філософські концепції в контексті роздумів про майбутнє людини і людства (Prokopovych, 2021). Такі перформанси, до речі, є однією з форм публічного філософського дискурсу, які наразі докладно досліджує Іламі Ясна (Ясна, 2021).…”

Ukrainian Public Philosophy in Searching for a Public

“…If we turn to the descriptions of the projects and comments of I. Yasna 11 , we can see that "public philosophy" includes phenomena of a very broad spectrum, which relate to the classical understanding of philosophy with a circle of authors, texts and topics represented by " authentic" philosophy, and those that are a certain "offshoot" -culture, art, social interaction, politics. One can also see an obvious tendency to "collect" branch knowledge -interdisciplinarity, which precedes the formation of postdisciplinarity on the basis of philosophical generalization.…”

Трансформація Театральності Буття В Новому Техно-Культурному Контексті (На Прикладі Анатомічного Театру)

“…Вони формують певні техно-культурні візії, які мають передбачати ще й театральну складову соціального життя людей. В контексті означеної проблематики така складова простежується, наприклад, зі створенням людиноподібних роботів (Прокопович, 2019а), в практиці сучасних філософських перформансів (Prokopovych, 2021) тощо.…”