Realność i wirtualność w kontekstach cyfryzacji

Abstract

The author of the article analyses the categories of reality and virtuality in the context of digitisation. Noticing that nowadays, the main research problem is the creation of technology as a source of the real and the virtual, and the changing relationship between these two orders and their participation in the integration of contemporary communities, she looks at old and new virtualities, asks about the presence and reality of things and points out to the examples of the influence of cyberspace on contemporary man. Finally, she calls for an interdisciplinary diagnosis of contemporary cultural change: the progress of technology and the extent of the threats it poses should be of equal interest. Cultural research must go beyond the field delineated by the possibilities of mathematical language and beyond the description of phenomena in terms of pragmatics and functionality.