THE SPACE OF HISTORICITY IN THE DIGITAL PARADIGM OF CULTURE

The purpose of the article is to reveal the virtual nature of historicity, clearly represented by digital practices, in a spatial aspect. The research methodology is oriented on “hermeneutical understanding”, which is interactive in nature and corresponds to the interpretational possibilities of virtual experience. The specifics of the latter conditioned a phenomenological approach to the question of the definability of the life world of subjectivity, in which the mutually exclusive factors interact. Liberal democratic reasons express the need for recreation, but they signify the unification of individuals. Historical self-consciousness is inherent in existence, but is lost in the absolute power of “here-and-now”. Sociocultural continuum bears the combination of the incompatible (grotesque), being-nonsense, but it exists as fully tangible for all. The characteristic of the transformed form of historicity, conditioned by its own virtual moment, in the aspect of space constitutes the scientific novelty of the work and allows us coming to the conclusion: the digital paradigm of space reveals the crisis of historicity through the dynamics of its virtual moment to the status of the instance of being. Thus, in terms of experiencing space, it is clear that it becomes meaningful through the image of movement based on the current accessibility of the flow. The mental quality of the space in the performance-effects is transformed into a mature declarative, and the temporality of history in the digital space is represented by the superimposition of gradations of infinity and speculative momentality in quasi-simultaneity. The movement of retrospective analysis from the unity of the historical and the logical – through the actualization of the subject – reaches a state of conditionally indefinable relation to the past. That is, the past – from the category conditioned by real facts and the deed of history – turns into a sort of a mark, from which the outlines of the future set off, loaded with “hyperreality”. The subject is a priori hypostasizing in such performances into the affective-bodily factor, manifests itself as a “hyper-sign” of the being, which is attributed to the abolition of the fullness of itself. In the sense of categorization of the basic attitude towards its reality, which is the basis of historicity, such abolition is expressed by imitation of free will, and this is obviously a comic form. The set fair obviousness and self-sufficiency of the virtual moment of historicity shows the process of canceling the obsolete integrity scenario (the subject of cultural experience) and its replacement with a virtual feature that is “prosthetic” by the digital continuum.