| The theory of alienation is an important viewpoint of Marxist philosophy and a major concern of academic circles.With the development of society and the progress of science and technology,the digital age characterized by the Internet,the Internet of Things,big data and intelligence has arrived.We seem to have been living in a machine-centered digital age.This useful and productive "world of data",while enhancing and improving people’s lives,is often thought of as a constraint imposed by more or less abstract institutions and powers.The use of digital technology,in particular,is often associated with unclear rules,preconditions and consequences.Digital discretionary decisions limit not only our capacity for self-determination,but also the possibility of random action.The uncertainty of algorithm evolution leads to the trend of social form slipping from "digital opportunity" to "digital Leviathan",and there is a new tendency and possibility of human alienation.It is a major topic of the academic circle to apply Marx’s theory of alienation to analyze the survival and development of human in the digital age,so as to avoid the development of human alienation into a new crisis.The possibility of human alienation in the digital age.In Marx,the source of human alienation is private ownership.In the post-modern control society,the language of digital management society is composed of code based on numbers,which marks the management authority of information,which means that in the information world composed of big data,the subject is abstract to a bunch of transformed numbers.In order to analyze why the image of the subject has gradually blurred its own definition in the evolution of history,it is necessary to grasp how symbol,the product of the externalization of human thinking structure under the logic of capital,in turn becomes a kind of existence controlling the subject and intersubjectivity.Just as language is a symbol system that can be studied in the real world,a symbol system that can be quantified--index has also been developed in economic society.The emergence of index follows the evolution law of capital logic,and the main body leads to deeper symbolization through the intermediary of virtual space,which will lead to a series of consequences of deep virtualization.In the virtual space,if digital alienation is not controlled and the satisfaction of symbolic desire is not guided,two extreme effects will occur: first,after people become virtual subjects through digital alienation,they are specifically manifested as virtual subjects who fall into cyber psychosis after the unity of symbolic desire,and we media,virtual subjects whose formal power is expanded.Second,platform capital,as the leader of digital alienation,completes its subjectification and becomes an objective existence of dominant subject behavior in virtual space.In order to pursue realistic power,platform capital delivers economic benefits in virtual space and constantly promotes the virtualization of the main body and creates virtualization,which inevitably leads to its own demise.At the same time that platform capitalism,the manifestation of late capitalism,is going to die,we can also grasp the possible path of opening up the kingdom of freedom in it. |