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Humankind is entering a period in which it will share its formerly exclusive domain of the intellect with an entity which has the potential to outperform current human abilities, skills, and intellectual achievements. The objective of this paper is to consider the specific consequences of the introduction of technologies employing artificial intelligence in the domains of culture, education, family life and work and to evaluate its impact on the cohesive powers that allow for the creation, maintenance, and development of human communities. The authors argue that certain features embedded in fiction and non-fiction films depicting the effects of this technology can be considered primitive behavioural experiments, and that their analysis allows for the possibility to make informed judgements about the nature and potential impact of artificial intelligence on human collective behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the ongoing trend of the extensive visualisation of digital media discourses through an investigation of Russian language esports media discourses. The authors suggest that esports discourses are typical examples of digimodern and hypermodern discourses in which the visual mode with its various elements and genres is central and dominant in serving the interactional purpose of esports discourse. The analysis focuses on the complexity of the discourse of the esports community and its role as a media communication community on the global intercultural communication scene. The interdisciplinary research methodology draws on the resources of several academic disciplines, primarily those of linguistics, semiotics, communication and media studies, and cognitive sciences. The case study explores the dominant role and the functions of the visual mode in Russian language esports discourses on portals such as cybersport.ru and cyber.sports.ru using materials relating to the esports teams Virtus.Pro and Newbee. The discourse and content analysis reveals that the growing visualisation of esports discourse has emphasised the importance of visual elements such as photos, graphics, infographics, videos, mesh banners, screenshots, quotations, memes, contests and CTA (Call to Action) buttons as the overriding means of interaction. The corpus used in this research is comprised of materials from the cybersports.ru (729 texts about Virtus.Pro Dota2 and 57 texts about Newbee Dota2) and cyber.sports.ru (1774 texts about Vitrus.Pro and 219 texts about Newbee) online portals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is devoted to an investigation of the genesis of the formation of the philosophical and culturalanthropological relevance and significance of the concepts of communication, visualization (the phenomenal image) and the Other in European philosophy and culture since the 17th century. It deals with the transitions and new and evolving paradigms in European philosophy and culture related to the shift from conceptual thinking, the selfcontained monistic subject, the rational approach and objectification to the attitude of openness, contemplation and the personal intersubjective relationship between Self and You among others. The authors intend to show the difficulties involved in asserting the problem of communication, the Other and the visual image of a person, using evidence from the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, Gabriel Marcel, Michael Bakhtin, and others. The paper also focuses on the separate issue of the relationship between language and image, which prevented the revelation of the philosophical primacy of the latter for many years. An openness to the phenomenally perceived image of the Other allows one to perceive within it the aesthetic evidence of its own being and to establish visual communication with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]