Technical Image and the Scientific Subject: Modernity in Decay Through the Technocratic Speech

modernidade em decadência através do discurso tecnocrático

Abstract

The popularization of the use of technical images in people's daily lives brought several other forms of manifestation of discourses and the exercise of power. The forms of social relationships in the current world demand that we look more carefully at the semantic remodeling of the symbolic instance through which the human being locates himself in the referents of meanings and values that give the experienced reality. This work is essayistic and seeks to understand how the current technoscientific forms already demonstrate a decadent process because the elements of modernity, far from having been overcome, have been receiving a greater revaluation in view of the multiplication of technical language. The hermeneutic-philosophical bias is used as the main methodology, mainly based on contemporary authors such as Heidegger and Flusser. The objects of analysis are mainly the philosophical and scientific concepts involved in the processes of communication and information production. In the end, it seeks to highlight the tension between subjectless thought and the human intellect and how such a situation tends to consummate Western historical andon a global scale.