The Relevance of Heidegger's Notion of Production. This article discusses the relevance of one of the main concepts of Heidegger's philosophy of technology - production (Herstellung). It is argued that Heidegger presciently foresaw one of the main tendencies of contemporary technoscientific civilization - the establishment of manifold and increasingly deepening tendency of producibility of reality. It is shown that the notion of production is important for articulating contemporary and emerging technological phenomena on the macroscale (e.g. ideas of geoengineering), as well as microscale (e.g. synthetic biology): reality more and more becomes an artifact, while the human being becomes a producer.

Reception of Heidegger’s Notion of the Essence of Technology in the “Empirical Turn”
Philosophy of Technology. In this article some important aspects of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology is addressed. It is argued against Don Ihde’s observation that Heidegger’s philosophy of technology mostly concerns the large scale technological phenomena of industrial revolution – actually in Heidegger’s oeuvre we can find reflection on such micro-scale post-industrial technologies as cybernetics, biotechnologies etc. The critique of the essentialism of Heideggerian philosophy of technology by such authors as Andrew Feenberg, Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek is presented. It is suggested that earlier Heidegger’s concept of the essence of technology as “machination” (Machenschaft) is less susceptible to such criticism: whether technologies are exploitative and turning nature into “standing reserve”, or whether they are ecological and nature-friendly, whether they are understood as autonomous force, or democratically controlled process – it could be said that through contemporary technologies reality is increasingly turned into artifice and entities are revealed as makeable and producible.

The Context of Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology:
Cassirer, Jünger, Spengler. In this article the context of the formation of some important elements of Heidegger's philosophy of technology is presented. The parallels between Heidegger's and Ernst Cassirrer's, Ernst Jünger's and Oswald Spengler's philosophical reflection on the process of industrialisation are discussed. While discussing the connections of their conceptions the development of characteristic Heideggerian articulation of industrialisation process comes to the fore, as well as of some important themes of Heidegger's philosophy of technology: planetary scope of modern technology's reach and impact and the notion of technology as destiny of the West and modern humanity in general.

The Problem of Autonomy of Technology in Philosophy of Gilbert Simondon
In this article, an important part of Simondon’s philosophy of technology (mainly as it is elaborated in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects) is presented and situated within a broader context of philosophy of technology and contemporary trends of technological development. The hypothesis suggests that one of the main motives behind such Simondon’s ideas as a reconciliation between culture and technics, the need for mechanology, etc. is to dispel the metaphysical view of autonomous position of technology as uncontrollable destiny in contemporary societies. However, Simondon’s position remains inherently ambivalent here: even though it is culture that should incorporate and govern technology, culture still must accomodate itself to the actual state of technology developed by technicians. A mystifying element in Simondon’s philosophy of technology remains, as the philosopher privileges a technician as being grounded in and having access to the pre-individual state of nature. It is argued that the development of technology should be more democratized and put under rational control of society.

Contextualizing Simondon’s Critique of Hylemorphism: On Technological Mediation

In the article the Simondonian critique of hylomorphism is contextualized within
the theme of technological mediation. According to Simondon, the hylomorphic conceptual structure already found in Ancient Greece is only partially technological and contaminated with other conceptual influences. It is asked why Simondon problematizes hylomorphism through the theme of technology in the first place. For the context, the Heideggerian hypothesis of the origen of Ancient Greek ontology in the experience of production is presented. It is also suggested to understand these interpretations in the light of P. P. Verbeek’s notion of technological mediation. The relevance of Simondonian notion of (technological) mediation is shown. The political implications of technological mediation are discussed. The general conclusion suggests to pay more attention to the importance of the theme of technological mediation not only for Simondon’s philosophy, but also even for origen and development of Western philosophy as such.

The overview of this issue of Philosophy/Sociology presents the main themes through the lens of basic introduction to philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology and practical philosophy. The interrelationship between the three is shown. In this issue, among other themes, John Dewey's concept of experience of nature is presented, some topics of skepticism and ethical aspects of war, progress of technology and business are discussed.

This article is an overview and introduction of the current issue of Filosofija. Sociologija, thematically divided into five chapters. The topics cover various aspects of contemporary world: from the challenges related to technology and democracy to researches on youth values and worldview. What seems to unite all these articles (in spite of their plurality of themes, views and approaches) is the idea of an ever-changing world in which philosophy is interconnected with other sciences and disciplines, in order to provide more consistent and perhaps universal interpretations to the challenges that human beings must face in the contemporary world.

This article is an overview and introduction of the current issue of Filosofija. Sociologija, thematically divided into five chapters. The topics cover various aspects of contemporary world: from the challenges related to technology and democracy to researches on youth values and worldview. What seems to unite all these articles (in spite of their plurality of themes, views and approaches) is the idea of an ever-changing world in which philosophy is interconnected with other sciences and disciplines, in order to provide more consistent and perhaps universal interpretations to the challenges that human beings must face in the contemporary world.

Digitalisation and platformisation are continuously impacting and reshaping the societies we live in. In this context, we are witnessing the rise of phenomena such as fake news, hate speech, and the sharing of any other illegal content through social media. In this paper, I propose some ethical reflections on content moderation in the context of digital (social) media, as this topic seems – to me – to already incorporate other relevant digital issues in it, such as algorithms bias, the spread of fake news, and the potential misuses of artificial intelligence. In the first section, I will provide a few hermeneutic reflections over a speech given by the Italian scholar Umberto Eco, which appears to underline the necessity of a content moderation in an era of digital (social) media. In the second section, I will analyse, through a consequentialist perspective, critical and ethical issues posed by content moderation. In particular, I suggest the idea of a ‘moderate’ (reasonable and limited) content moderation that can only be assured by humans, as they are able to contextualise the content, to take emotions and subjective elements into account, to apply critical thinking and adaptability in complex circumstances.

Technologies, media, and creativity are strictly intersected in creative society. This study sheds light on how new media and technologies affect creativity and creative communication, through research articles published in the Web of Science (WoS-Clarivate Analytics) database. The primary objective of this research is to provide a systematic literature review of existing scientific publications on new media and communication in the creative society and to provide proposals for future research. A total of 173 articles, published between 2012 and 2024 in scientific journals indexed by the WoS database, were considered in this literature mapping. The results of this research report the following: (1) the structure of this field of study with regard to publications, authors, journals, and countries; (2) an analysis of the structure and content of selected articles; (3) an analysis of the new trends in the field (Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms); (4) a critical discussion of the current publications together with proposals for future research. This study aims to offer an overview of current scientific research on new media and communication in the context of creative society, providing for the first time a systematic literature review of this topic.