The article considers the contemporary information society as a special conBguration of
social reality in which the modern European mode of being-in-the-world runs to extremes
and starts to collapse. It is demonstrated that the universal information synthesis, depriv-
ing a man of the status of a subject, triggers the decay of representation, and that the newest computer technologies and biotechnologies portend the advent of unrepresentable and uncontrolled future. The attractiveness of the technological Other is postulated to be inextricably linked with its danger, which leads to the question of its possible alternatives.
Key words: information society, universal information synthesis, Modern time, tech-
nological Other.
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