The specifics of cognition of a postmodern subject against the background of a cynical attitude of consciousness

The variety of connotations related to modern society indicates the incredible difficulty in determining the properties and characteristics of the current sociocultural reality. One of the most revealing characteristics is an indication of total hyperinformatization, accompanied by a change in the conceptual status of “knowledge” and a specific convergence of “knowledge” and “information”. Information becomes a constant element of everyday interaction, as a result of which the subject, living in a sociality that is constantly becoming more complex, has a need for its own epistemological strategies for dealing with information. At the same time, the subject itself is undergoing changes associated with rapidly growing changes in the social field and the impossibility, in connection with this, to find a stable basis for building one’s own subjectness. The article attempts to characterize the cognitive strategy of the postmodern subject against the background of the unfolding cynical attitude of consciousness, designed to compensate for the “trauma” and “split” of such consciousness. In connection with this, the cognitive strategy is associated with the subject’s attitude to minimize psycho-emotional costs and unfolds as a special way, a manifest mode of deconstruction. Deconstruction, therefore, is understood as a simplification and modification of social reality to the point where cost minimization is possible. The article shows that such deconstruction is based on the reduced expectations of the individual regarding hidden motives in the behavior of the Other, on the basis of which one “reassembles” the social reality for oneself and creates a “story”, in which one constructs an understanding of “truth-for-itself’. Thus, the ontological statuses of the concepts “truth” or “falsehood” will not be of fundamental importance for the subject, since it will rely on the clarity and definability of these settings for itself. The very concept of “knowledge” becomes synonymous with the concepts of “convenient”, “acceptable” and “relevant”. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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