THE CONTRADICTORY NATURE OF THE «TECHNOPHOBIA» AND «TECHNOPHILIA» PROVISIONS IN THE MIRROR OF CULTURAL LITERATURE

Abstract

The article reveals the fundamental approaches to clarifying the concept of «technology», which are common in the cultural, art history and philosophical literature on this topic. The level of scientific development of «technophilia», «technophobia», «determinism» concepts is investigated and the influence of technical progress on the formation of art and culture in general is clarified. According to certain tasks in the study, general and specific scientific methods were applied: analytical – to consider philosophical, art history, culturological literature on the research topic; historical – to trace the evolution of technology penetration into cultural and artistic practice, conceptual – to analyze the concept of «technology» and clarifying the main concepts considered; comparative typological – to identify the features of the difference between technophobia and technophilia as opposing concepts in content.