TRANSHUMANIST AND GLOBALIST TRANSFORMATIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The purpose of the study. The article examines the impact of globalization trends on the state of modern higher education. Methodology. Research is a dialectical reproduction of the logic of relations between knowledge and skills, human needs and business orders in the process of obtaining higher education. Scientific novelty. The article argues the idea that the essence of education as such and of higher education in particular is being significantly transformed under the influence of globalist trends – the unification of content, the growing role of requests from the military-industrial complex, and the unstoppable development of high technologies. The results of this are the gradual transformation of higher education into a lever for satisfying the interests of transnational groups; a significant change in the place and role of a person in the world as a subject of knowledge and education; the gradual deanthropologization of higher education as a result of the spread of mediating, alienated methods of acquiring knowledge and the reduction of the teacher's role in the educational process; blurring the boundaries between knowledge and information, significant reduction in the creative potential of higher education. These processes are accelerated by the growing influence of high technologies, which strengthen the ideas of transhumanism as a promising project of fundamental change of the essence of human being as a species of Homo Sapiens. Conclusion. The mentioned trends and regularities indicate that the future is will consist of a completely non-productive sphere of services, which develops exclusively by the forces of high technologies with a minimal presence of creative human thought, turning representatives of the intellectual sphere into a precariat – intellectual proletarians.