The end of the post-industrial “vacuum” management or about the crisis of global social universalism

DOI: 10.22394/2071-2367-2023-18-3-15-32 EDN: DNDOMS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to assess the effect of social destruction on key social processes and institutions and to consider the prospects for the structural collapse of the entire system of post-industrial postmodernity.

Methodology. The main research method is the method of predictive clustering through the identification of common signs of social context for social processes. This method allows you to highlight the features of modern global transformations, which are determined by a combination of the following elements. Firstly, a critical change in the architecture of global political and economic relations. Secondly, the crisis of the economic development model built on the dominance of financial capitalism. Thirdly, the slow but consistent destruction of the universalist model of social development, including its sociocultural component. The latter began with attempts to delineate the contours of the post-human world within the framework of the "Davos Consensus". Where, on the one hand, the prospect of human neurofication and the algorithmization of their social behavior began to be widely discussed, and on the other hand, the concept of the precariat was born. This concept implies the lumpenization of significant sections of the population of post-industrial postmodern countries including through the socio-political legalization of precarity as a "new social normality". Results: identification of the main "breaking points" in the basic social and socio-political institutions characteristic of the space of post-industrial postmodernity. There is a statement of the high probability of a crisis of the entire system of social universalism of post-industrial postmodernity, and therefore a crisis of Western-centric globalization as a model of development.