17.12.2024
Rinat Mustafin
Manifesto for a new engagement: taming the cyber world.
In Neolithic times, 10-14 thousand years ago, man faced the harsh nature, defenseless but striving for survival. Then, in the conditions of glaciers and wild forests, man for the first time built a dialog with nature, worshipping its forces and creating gods whose faces reflected its power. Through long effort, he tamed the wild dog, making it his first ally in the struggle against the chaos of the world.
Today, nature has lost its sacredness for us. It has become a resource, a recreational tool, or a backdrop for soulless photos on digital social networks. We no longer create gods in its honor - our new idols are named after technology, robotics, neural networks. The dialog with nature has been replaced by a dialog with cyber-reality, where man again seeks to tame and subdue, but no longer wild beasts, but robots and avatars of the digital world.
Postmodernity tried to destroy the linear flow of time, to annul meaning and turn everything into a game of endless interpretations. But in reality, we continue to live by the laws of modernity and futurism, with its passion for the new, its desire for progress and its ruthless abandonment of the past. We gaze dreamily into a future where machines will be our faithful companions.
In our new reality, where survival depends on the speed at which technology is updated, we see cyber-robot dogs as symbols of the future, standing in a shop window like commodities on the shelf of a capitalist society. We may see them as mere machines, but they may be something more - digital avatars, the embodiment of our desire for absolute control over the world.
Their appearance is aggressive, full of inner energy, glowing light bulbs giving off an excess of power, ready for immediate action. They are the embodiment of our desire to dominate, to command, to subjugate the new cyber-world. The showcase in which they are displayed reminds us: they are not just creatures, they are commodities, objects of consumption, the newest models in the endless stream of technological progress.
This manifesto is not just about dogs, robots or capitalism. It is a manifesto for a new stage of human interaction with the world, in which the domestication of cyber-reality becomes our new challenge and our new destiny. We are entering an era where gods are born from codes and algorithms, and tamed robots become the new vehicles of our ambitions.
