Rebooting social reality in the space of quantified symbolic objects: “ontologization of the figure”
Vladimir I. Ignatyev
Abstract:The article examines one side of the process of ontologization - the transformation of the symbolic world into a world of empirically detectable things and phenomena. The rationale for the thesis is that in the process of digitalization a fragment of being is replaced by its symbol, and the ontologization of “figure” appears as the emanation of the symbol in a fundamentally new fragment of existence, in the embodied semblance of a sign. This process is to be interpreted as “ontologization of the figure” - the … Show more
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