Innovation and destruction of experience in prefigurative culture

Authors

  • Tatiana V. Zaidal Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

experience, repetition, innovation, destruction of experience, poverty of experience, prefigurative culture

Abstract

The article examines the problem of impoverishment (destruction) of experience, specific for modernity, its connection with the growing rate of change in living conditions and the obsolescence of cultural elements. The destruction of experience as an adult mask suggests the birth of new experiences provided by technology and communication systems. Mechanisms of innovation and repetition act as a compensatory, defensive response to uncertainty. The destruction of experience, as well as the infantilism of the mass urbanised culture, striving to continue the childhood experience of repetition in adulthood, largely ensured the emergence of a prefigurative type of culture.

Author Biography

  • Tatiana V. Zaidal, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    senior lecturer at the department of culturology, faculty of social and cultural communications

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Published

2022-03-29

Issue

No. 1 (2022): Person in the socio-cultural dimension

Section

Socio-Cultural Communications

How to Cite

[1]
Zaidal, T.V. 2022. Innovation and destruction of experience in prefigurative culture. Human in the Socio-Cultural Dimension. 1 (Mar. 2022), 10–15.