(232) DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, THEATRICALITY AND SEXUALITY
Authors: Hájek T 
Published: December 2024

Introduction

Private information means information stored and copied without the knowledge of an individual. Digitalisation of all aspects of life rapidly deepening since the beginning of the 21st century threatens the loss of control over private information. Digitalisation of social life involves external monitoring and control, for example with camera systems, which expand public space to the detriment of private space. Digital transformation of the society is intertwined with digitalisation of social life. In the case of digital transformation of the society, private space disappears from the inside of the world as a whole, while in the case of digitalisation of social life, private space is usurped from the outside and more selectively.

Objective

Understanding of paraphilic disorders and their therapy is based, among other aspects, on clear differentiation between public and private space. For example, it seems that certain paraphilic disorders (Exhibitionistic, Voyeuristic and Frotteuristic Disorder) are demonstrated by inappropriate crossing of the borderline between public and private space. And this borderline is currently in motion quantitatively and qualitatively. The author attempts to introduce the following motif to this issue: digital transformation of the society including digitalisation of social life unavoidably strengthens the self-control of those who actively engage in public space. Optimisation of self-perception for the outside world will strengthen the awareness of the human existence as a role in the theatre of the world. Increasingly absent securities of entitlement to privacy may result in increasing theatricality of the human existence and this may destabilise the human existence as such, including sexuality.

Methods

This topic can be included in the study of the relationship between culture and sexology. It is an attempt at a thought experiment aiming to contribute to the creation of methodological and conceptual architecture of the issue, which can be used as the multidisciplinary foundation for hypotheses to be subsequently empirically proven or disproven. Abstract preparation involves research of international scientific literature and builds on the author’s analyses of the relationship between philosophy and theatre.

Results

Scientific literature focusing on the impact of digital transformation and digitalisation of social life on sexuality was researched in preparation for the study with the conclusion that this topic is being gradually covered. On the other hand, research of international literature focusing on their potential impact on paraphilic disorders or gender incongruence failed to yield significant results. As for the relationship between philosophy and theatre, the analysis demonstrated theatricality as unquestionable framework of the existence of the man and the society, while the diverse approach to this topic can be explained by the scaled and dynamic character of theatricality.

Conclusions

Study of the relationship between philosophy and theatre shows the man’s permanent role playing as a condition for his coherence in his anthropological situation. On the other hand, theatricality burdens the man and the society as the type of determinedness that limits freedom as such. This dichotomy also points to the relevancy of the thought experiment mentioned above.

Disclosure

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