TECHNOLOGY AND IMAGINATION

Abstract

This article examines the dialectical relation between technology and imagination in modern times. In addition, the notions of art, media, culture, game and utopia, and phenomena associated to them, are being explored in the context of this relationship consideration. The technology is, in fact, turning away from the world of rational (scientific) knowledge by exploring development opportunities within the area that is directly referred to as the realm of imagination. On the other hand, imagination, which was at first treated as the „resource” for various engineering applications in the fields of art, culture and media, and the domain of reality (politics, critical and communicative practices and social reality), is being mediated through and thus essentially or structurally determined by the schematized actions of contemporary, interactive communication technologies. It seems to us that this new dialectical mediation that takes place between technology and imagination in the present time appears as the one with no alternative, which however should be an open question, as stated in the conclusion.