Dilemmas and Paradoxes of the Hypercomplex Society
摘要
Faced with a cultural evolution that conditions biological evolution, the need to overcome the false nature/culture dichotomy and to enhance the crucial issues of inter/multi-disciplinarity emerges with considerable force, as humanistic and scientific cultures can no longer be kept separate. Furthermore, the dominant individualism of present-day “asymmetric” social systems, which is the outcome of the ambivalent process of emancipation carried out during Modernity, has, on the one hand, increased freedom and led to the recognition of some fundamental rights (at least in theory); on the other, it has paradoxically weakened the constraints and bonds of community belonging, as well as the mechanisms of trust and cooperation, at a time of maximum expansion of the new global communications ecosystem— at least in terms of connectivity— while the actual sharing of knowledge, which should define communication, has been too limited to further inclusion or to shake up the age-old logics of control. The economistic paradigm must be questioned, keeping in mind, however, that the crisis is far from being solely economic.