During the past decades, the natural process of entropy, as a consequence of the multidirectional and, in many cases, destructive impact of humanity on the surrounding material world, has led to the exponential growth of technologies. In turn, the automated machines have contributed towards a fairly rapid development, construction and assimilation within the unexplored and alluring digital space. The increasing degree of disorder in the system of Anthropocene predetermined the birth and the rapid growth of what is known today as the digital economy. As a result, when the aspects of material tangibility are gradually excluded from the process of human interaction with the outside world, the energy compressed within the various technological and social systems finds new ways and forms of manifestation, and fashion in this sense is no exception. Although, at first glance, fashion, as an integral part of human culture, has an entirely material basis, contemporary trends demonstrate that its key values, properties and meanings are fully in demand in their digital form. The aim of the research is to critically explore the processes of mutual influence and transformation of philosophy, religion and digital technologies through the lens of fashion as one of the key modalities of the human communication and self-expression. The study is carried out using the basic principles of Dialectic Materialism in order to determine the features of the post-humanistic form of development of the society as a whole system with a particular focus on fashion. The notions of avatars, artificial intelligence, non-material space, multiplicity and the infinity of the essence of being are similar or repeat many provisions of the key religious texts of various faiths. Can it happen that the human existence in its material form will only be one of the independent entities along with many other digital ones? How will these entities interact with each other? Are we currently creating and enabling an intelligent digital world that could become conscious in the future? Will an operating system become the new Creator? And finally, how will fashion, the inseparable companion of the mind and soul, continue to shape the space of its existence?

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Fashion Towards Post-humanism: Digital Fashion as a Medium for the Formation of New Intelligence

  • Ksenija Mjasnikova

摘要

During the past decades, the natural process of entropy, as a consequence of the multidirectional and, in many cases, destructive impact of humanity on the surrounding material world, has led to the exponential growth of technologies. In turn, the automated machines have contributed towards a fairly rapid development, construction and assimilation within the unexplored and alluring digital space. The increasing degree of disorder in the system of Anthropocene predetermined the birth and the rapid growth of what is known today as the digital economy. As a result, when the aspects of material tangibility are gradually excluded from the process of human interaction with the outside world, the energy compressed within the various technological and social systems finds new ways and forms of manifestation, and fashion in this sense is no exception. Although, at first glance, fashion, as an integral part of human culture, has an entirely material basis, contemporary trends demonstrate that its key values, properties and meanings are fully in demand in their digital form. The aim of the research is to critically explore the processes of mutual influence and transformation of philosophy, religion and digital technologies through the lens of fashion as one of the key modalities of the human communication and self-expression. The study is carried out using the basic principles of Dialectic Materialism in order to determine the features of the post-humanistic form of development of the society as a whole system with a particular focus on fashion. The notions of avatars, artificial intelligence, non-material space, multiplicity and the infinity of the essence of being are similar or repeat many provisions of the key religious texts of various faiths. Can it happen that the human existence in its material form will only be one of the independent entities along with many other digital ones? How will these entities interact with each other? Are we currently creating and enabling an intelligent digital world that could become conscious in the future? Will an operating system become the new Creator? And finally, how will fashion, the inseparable companion of the mind and soul, continue to shape the space of its existence?