Captured by Digitization

Abstract

While digitization claims to provide efficiency, accessibility, expansion, speediness, and profit accumulation, it is actually colonizing every human activity. It has even become a purpose in itself. In this essay we focus on the digitization of legal practices and contents. We describe what digitization encompasses, how digitalization processes work, and to what extent they are able to replace juristic processes and produce legal outcomes. We are inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay on the influence of mechanical reproduction of the works of Art. Parallel to Benjamin’s work on Art, we will analyze Law and the consequences of innovations such as mechanical mass (re)production and computerized digitization.

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“…As such, lawyers are increasingly using innovative and powerful technologies to help them work more efficiently and productively through analysis and data-driven knowledge, deliver better results and offer significant value to clients across industries. Lawyers who already use technology nowadays and are considered "technological pioneers" have a clear advantage over their competitors because they are already working more profitably and are better prepared for the upcoming changes (Jansen & Schreiner, 2023).…”

Analysis of modern digital civilization in the context of dominant paradigms of humanitarian education development: attempts of philosophical reflection

“…The reason for this is the direct connection between the intensity of technology and the capabilities and desires of a person (in this case, a participant in the educational process). In turn, Jansen & Schreiner (2023) emphasize that the expansion of the sphere of influence of ICTs leads to domination over human activity rather than its expression. In the modern philosophical and educational paradigm, several approaches are proposed to correlate the technological and humanitarian components of education (see Figure 2).…”