Post-Political Studies and the Phenomenon of Information Redundancy

The paper combines several research logics and strategies. First of all, the thesis about forming the mental and ideological foundations of the information and communication paradigm in the modern public consciousness is justified. This research matrix has acquired an original ideological and epistemological status in the conceptual space of those social philosophic and sociological theories that contain the reflection of qualitative transformations in societal practices and structures of producing social knowledge under the conditions of informatization. According to the authors, the current “post-political agenda” (deon-tologization being desacralization and profanization of the political) is based on information failures and overloads in political communication systems. The de-hierarchical plural environment of Internet communications provokes the proliferation of information flows, generates quasi-events and toxic information flows, filling gaps in public relations morphology with political phantasms and simulacra. As the analysis shows, the exponential growth of information does not have a positive correlation among the acts of effective interpretation. The amount of information, including social-and-political, is really becoming larger and larger while there are fewer ways and forms of its decryption. The long-term trend and a natural result of the mediatization and virtualization of public policy consists in its “simu-lacrization”. The profile of “simulation representation” and the politician's authority and popularity level are mutually interfaced. The “virtual social capital”, reified in the quantitative parameters of watchability, readability and recitation, becomes a universal measure and a criterion of the social significance of all active actors in political life. The general devaluation and profanization of the political axiosphere, its deliberate declarativeness and fundamental irrelevance to the current post-democratic trends in politics, economics and public life, as it seems, provoke and aggravate further fragmentation and disintegration in the systems of social interaction and communication. The author's position is revealed in a number of theoretical propositions regarding the impossibility of reducing any generally significant (universal) bases in the construction of authentic images of social reality in the information and communication paradigm.

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