On the Inner Contradiction of Virtual Being
Kou Hong-shun · 2002
Digital technology is a social revolution which is deeply and completely changing our style of being. I have analysized the five inner contradictions of virtual being. They are the contradiction of true and false in technological level, the contradiction of objectification and non - objectification in the relationship of human and machine level, the contradiction of body and mind in human nature level, the contradiction of subject and subject in the information marketplace and the contradiction of the freedom of being and the duty of being in the social relationship level. Through these analyses, the writer try to transcend the optimism and pessimism opition to technology and grasp virtual being dialectiallv.