Distinguishing Between the Material Reality and Social Reality

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Titel: Distinguishing Between the Material Reality and Social Reality
Autoren: Kamusella, Tomasz
Weitere Verfasser: University of St Andrews.School of History, University of St Andrews.St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial History
Quelle: Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics. 19:75-97
Verlagsinformationen: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.
Publikationsjahr: 2025
Schlagwörter: Extrasemiotic sphere, Universe, Biosphere, Material reality, Semiosphere, Mode of existence, T-NDAS, Social reality, Speech act, Language
Beschreibung: In the so-called “post-truth age” that commenced in the mid-2010s, fake news and unsubstantiated claims have gained popularity mostly stemming from the human observer’s confusion between the material reality and social reality. The article proposes a logical grid for testing whether an object or phenomenon under scrutiny belongs to the former or latter type of reality, and whether, from the human observer’s perspective, its existence is objective or subjective within such a given reality’s confines. The discussion is foregrounded with the history of spatialized conceptualizations of the material and social reality, and concludes with a reflection on the prospect of a rising non-human (machine-generated) social reality.
Publikationsart: Article
Dateibeschreibung: application/pdf
Sprache: English
ISSN: 2570-5857
DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2025-0004
Zugangs-URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10023/32706
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jnmlp-2025-0004
Rights: CC BY NC ND
Dokumentencode: edsair.doi.dedup.....252b34aa6e9dfda55c00375a9752f988
Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:In the so-called “post-truth age” that commenced in the mid-2010s, fake news and unsubstantiated claims have gained popularity mostly stemming from the human observer’s confusion between the material reality and social reality. The article proposes a logical grid for testing whether an object or phenomenon under scrutiny belongs to the former or latter type of reality, and whether, from the human observer’s perspective, its existence is objective or subjective within such a given reality’s confines. The discussion is foregrounded with the history of spatialized conceptualizations of the material and social reality, and concludes with a reflection on the prospect of a rising non-human (machine-generated) social reality.
ISSN:25705857
DOI:10.2478/jnmlp-2025-0004