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rather than research? only creation? Rather, this way: will the exploration and
creation of such autopoietic forms be parallal and conscious in the post-crisis
period? Given that both the means of analysis, and the system of logging,
reporting and decision-making, strive for maximum automation. Who will be the
scientifically "learned" personality of the scientist in these conditions and what
are the criteria for his qualification in these conditions? And what is it, it is asked,
for science as the highest form of intellectual creativity, creating the intellectual
elite and engaged in the "search for truth," which, in order to improve the
qualification of the applicant, demands from him a miserable marriage of
"relevance" and "novelty," quite like himself from an advertising specialist needs
a marketing plan. Hence, the search for new aspects of natural reality is not due
to the ability of the applicant to make an abstract contribution to "human
cognition", but to identify in these aspects the phenomena and patterns that are
subsequently calculated for technological reproduction and sale on the market,
possibly as alternatives to those criticized in scientific publications other scientific
theses and conclusions derived from them. But the trouble is that there are
almost no markets left, and the science engaged in "searching for the truth" and
converting the discovered phenomena and regularities into non-market
technologies does not fit in with the paradigm of scientific and technological
progress, and the associated formats of scientific competition and "novelty ".
However, this also seems to apply to the tasks and prospects of post-crisis
science, and today it is a simple statement that science in its industrial-market
quality of the division of scientific work and the related division of specialization
does not play any more an economic role.
Emasculation of creativity
The question of the scientist's personality was mentioned in the previous
subsection. In fact, emasculation from science of the creative component is a
consequence of the reduction of the scientist's integral personality to an extras
that satisfies or does not satisfy the requirements of "scientific work". At the
same time, today, from the side of the "idols of the crowd," there are numerous
disparate claims to science about the fact that it is not able to give
recommendations in the context of systemic crises of subject areas. In particular,
these are claims to non-economic constructs. But, in the first place, a qualified
and scientifically graded specialist is often unable to make recommendations in
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the conditions of such crises, since such crises, as a rule and mainly, are
connected with a crisis of the dominant scientific paradigms and research
programs that set the framework for the work of specialists of any kind. scientific
degrees. This is the classic of the science of science. And secondly, in order to go
beyond science, its criterial systems and principles of functioning, one must be
more than a scientist. And this clearly blurs those for whom "scholarship" and
"scientific", scientism, is the pinnacle of social status (although in actual fact it
turns out that this status is purely economic – economic). That is, in
order to solve
the problems of scientific crisis, a man of science must be a creator, a versatile
personality, greedy for such development and, probably, an Artist. Of course, with
some share of the costs and contradictions of nature that take place here. That is,
it is a question of a supra-rational, and therefore – a component of scientific
activity that does not fit into disciplinary practices and is beyond its control. (The
perplexity of some commentators of this process and the fears about the "erosion
of scientific character" look strange-one can recall the theorizing on the
limitations of formalisms that have become nauseous theorists.) But, since the
scientific qualifications and degrees in question here exist within the paradigm of
scientific and technological progress, Creative is declared "unscientific" and is
thrown out of serious consideration.
In this connection, the well-known example of the 15th century is typical of the
"personality-scientist-as-creator-or-someone-else" theme. It is known that
Machiavelli dedicated his "Sovereign" Lorenzo de Medici, the Duke of Urbino (the
grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent). The "Sovereign" himself may well be
considered a political work with a rich argumentative base. It is also known that
as a prototype of the ideal sovereign, Machiavelli took the filthy bastard and
scoundrel Cesare Borgia, abominable even by the standards of those years (from
the participation of this name in the affairs of the Holy See, the Catholic Church
still can not be washed), which, as is also known, was written one of the best
dissertations in jurisprudence for his time (which did not prevent him from being
such a person as he was, and is an excellent example of the beginning of the
movement of science towards NTP, within which the irrespective of science from
to morality). Lorenzo the Magnificent himself is known more as a patron, a poet-
writer of burlesque verses, an outstanding diplomat and, incidentally, as one of
the best rulers of his time. Much less he is known as a scientist, although he