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Value - Spirit Vs
Technological Utopia
Tiberiu Brailean
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
University Alexandru Ioan Cuza
22, Carol I str. IASI 700506, Romania.
Email:
tbrailean@yahoo.com
Accepted 13 May 2014
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Within the world economic
context, the “spiritual value” in Bernard Stiegler’
terminology (2005) seems to be losing ground to the
detriment of the “libidinal economy”, to use an
expression belonging to the same author; this
economy is characterised by consumerism,
speculation, excessive mercantilism, totalitarian
marketing, virtual values, greed, glaring inequality
and the “reign of quantity” (René Guenon, 2008). On
this background – one of disenchantment of the
world, and annihilation of the old myths – older or
very recent authors, the “technological utopians” as
we have called them, reassure us that we are
entering a new golden age – courtesy of technology –
which is about to put an end to poverty, and bring
abundance instead; it may also affect – to
annihilation – even the human being and life on
planet earth. This is why we advocate for a
reification of reason, a new psychic individuation,
more balance, as well as a re-enchantment of the
world.
Keywords:
Value, spirit, utopia, technologism, crisis,
immorality, totalitarianism, distribution, myths,
post-human era.
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