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Sterile Preoccupation: Towards Technocracy and Loss of Human


William Blake, Newton (1795)


Roland Barthes reminds us, looks us back from his grave, and constantly warns us about the mythological character of human life, our society, and the relationship of human with the life-systems, whereas symbolic profusions outweigh rational contemplation, emotive appeals are strategically manoeuvred for the deceptive promises and considerations, rhetorical narratives are deployed to symbolize the virtue of unbounded eloquences, significances, and exemplifying extravagances of meanings, ritualistic and mechanical productions of narratives, and seductions towards efficacy as instrumentalised worldview have relegated human relationships to the status of mechanization and technocratizations. What is so significant about the mechanisation of thinking and ritualistic institutionalisation? If not the loss of humanistic elements in the human relationships and the relationships of human species from their nature, ecosystem, and the life-systems itself. What is so peculiar about the loss of human from its naturalistic elements is their degradation as the mass objects replaceable for the mega-technology of governance, under its efficient codebook, life is organised, managed, and controlled, under whose reign, humans racket their brains (Martin Heidegger), outsource freedoms and moral responsibilities (Erich Fromm). The technocracy is Janus faced, its character is devoid of any nature or character, its dimensions are nowhere, therefore it is everywhere, it governs but doesn't reign, it is not the God, but its secularised government, whose essence is not external to human life or nature. Technocracy has been strategically rewired in the moral psychology of human species, its ethics is unconsciously applied as the natural necessity, its goal is to achieve a linear progress, like a gigantic machine is randomly running to produce and seduce the necessities for incessant market and obscene consumerism. The politics of progress and development is saved by a new mythological language called sustainability or sustainable development, whose premise is presupposed as ontological necessity for the well-being of human species and the planet. The instrumentalism and realism have created havoc in terms of moral and political crises across the globe. The thoughtless mass media have relegated public debates around hyper-nationalism and jingoism, thereby silencing the reason and arousing the emotive appeals to establish the charismatic authorities, and to reify human's imaginations to think about other possible alternatives, as Roberto Unger reminds from American experiences that our alternatives are systematically eclipsed and made them invisible by showing them either too impractical or utopians. However, the essence of human species is their ability to dream and to create a worldview, to contemplate, to be aware of the building-block of everything, our thinking and our thoughts. The loss of reason is the destruction of human in us. The loss of feeling is the oblivion of the bond between nature and its humanistic character, the symbiosis of autonomy and heteronomy. Yet, the narcissistic projection of science and technology as weapons to wage wars against nature is nothing but self-annihilatory. It is strange to witness the discourses of intelligencia and their infinite desires to convert their ability to reflect into the language of production and exchange, their outsource of qualitative contemplation for instrumentalism and symbolic success. The creative product is hardly significant if not the process of creativity. Interestingly, the contemporary intellectuals hardly take their creative process or creative product seriously. 

Roland Barthes' provocative notion of the “death of the author and the birth of the reader” is now resting in the baffling peace inside the grave, since the Age of Artificial Intelligence is witnessing not only the death of author but also the death of the readers. Paul Ricœur’s conceptualization of "distanciation" of writerly and rearderly texts upholds the creative elements of the author. The of Age AI is installing a technocracy around the symbolic profusions of authors devoid of human elements of values and errors. This is not simply a fall of human species from a pre-supposed utopia. This is an irretrievable loss of art and its moral compass to organize life and nature! Human! Rest in Peace!!!


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