Topics on technological and commercial dehumanization

Abstract

The spectacularization of power and the state using the media machine helps hide the technological and commercial dehumanization fed by the economic and financial system during capitalism’s current stage of development. These phenomena mark society as a whole and education and culture in particular, which are losing humanistic references to become instruments for reproducing the status quo. Even new information and communication technologies, which were initially defined as aiming to contribute to individuals’ fulfilment, become instruments of alienation and submission by building a meta-reality. It is important to reject the overdetermination of politics, culture, education, information and communication by the economy and finance by encouraging a new critical awareness.