There are cultures in which people believe that some objects have magical powers; anthropologists call these objects fetishes. In our society, statistics are a sort of fetish. . Statistics direct our concern; they show us what we ought to worry about and how much we ought to worry. In a sense, the social problem becomes the statistic and, because we treat statistics as true and incontrovertible...

The article presents the author’s viewpoint on the basic characteristics of the socio-cultural context of the development of convergent technologies in the modern world. The main aspects of this contextual area are the states of social institutions, ideology and social myths in conditions of institutional competition. It is proved in the article that modern convergent technologies in addition t...

The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) examines implicit attitudes through the measurement of response latencies. In this study, the IRAP was used to assess implicit attitudes toward “mainstream” sexual terms (e.g., Kissing) and “BDSM” terms (e.g., Bondage) among individuals reporting BDSM interests and among students who did not report such interests. A questionnaire was used to m...

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Recent critical discourse on "critique" tends to betray a certain discomfort with critique's Enlightenment origins and its corresponding alignment notions of autonomous subjectivity universality. Especially since Bruno Latour's broadside against "anti-fetishism," supporters have been at pains distance critique from the image self-satisfied vanguard chiding unenlightened.

Purpose – There are a lot of discussions about privacy in relation to contemporary communication systems (such as Facebook and other “social media” platforms), but discussions about privacy on the Internet in most cases misses a profound understanding of the notion of privacy and where this notion is coming from. The purpose of this paper is to challenge the liberal notion of privacy and explor...