“Oh wondrous new ‘1984’ ”. Regime aspects of digital (anti)utopia
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-3-204-218
Abstract
The first quarter of the 21st century has demonstrated significant progress of humanity in digital technologies: from mobile and Internet communications, which have become publicly accessible from almost anywhere on Earth, to artificial intelligence technologies that can supplant the creative work of the human creator. However, digital technologies and the achievements of recent years are considered, first of all, as a means of increasing the comfort of human life or a business tool, but not as a means of creating a fundamentally new format of the political regime. New information technologies have the potential to solve issues of the political regime that seemed insoluble in the past: it becomes possible to ensure total political control over a citizen by the state using tracking tools (video cameras, social networks, digital monetary transactions) in time and space, almost complete linking of material and a person’s social well-being to the level of his loyalty to the political regime (digital currencies of central banks, basic unconditional income, social rating system), etc. Therefore, it seems relevant to analyze a number of respective concepts, practices and means in relation to the process of transformation of the political regime as a form of state.
About the Author
P. A. Korolev
Institute for Advanced Studies and Professional Retraining of Educational Workers of the Tula Region
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel A. Korolev, Cand. of Sci. (Political Science)
22, Lenina St., Tula, 300041
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Korolev P.A. “Oh wondrous new ‘1984’ ”. Regime aspects of digital (anti)utopia. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2024;(3):204-218. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-3-204-218
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