THE COGNITARIAT AS A PRODUCER OF HERMENEUTICEXISTENTIAL CAPITAL OF THE NOOECONOMICS

Abstract

The study examines the existential principles of human presence within the socio-cultural space of the future. It is argued that, within technological dimensions, the future economy – through its productive capacities for value creation – will be able to overcome the a priori determinism of the material environment, characterized by spatial and temporal limitations. An economic system in which the application of digital and quantum technologies drives the movement of value at zero marginal production costs and zero opportunity costs of use is defined as a nooeconomy. The cognitariat is defined as the meritocratic class of nooeconomic society, serving as the bearer of the strategic resource of this type of economic order – hermeneutic capital. A hypothesis is proposed regarding the "nooeconomics" as an "economy of self-giving" mediated by symbolic exchange. The argument posits that if the application of digital technologies nullifies temporal determinism within the value structure – and consequently the continuity of labor processes in quantitative terms, given that an instant lacks duration and if quantum technology delocalizes the spatial determinism of value’s presence through the totality of manifestation amidst spontaneous indeterminacy, then how is the market price of a product to be determined when scarcity has ceased to be the *a priori* environment? Where the dimension of time vanishes from human relationships, the quantitative basis for assessing the measure of utility also disappears: totality cannot be conceived, any more than infinity can. Yet reflections on infinity, totality, eternity, and the absolute presuppose a thinking subject and thus a human presence whose soul experiences a need to consume Truth in order to clarify ultimate answers regarding its own existence. In this situation, a need arises to understand the principle behind the formation of the use-value of an axiological text as a commodity specifically, its ontological novelty and the teleological orientation of the regeneration of hermeneutic capital, which constitutes the immanent experience of sublimating the dichotomies of being and the world within the integral dimensions of the Existent. The self-augmentation of value in the nooeconomy represents a new hermeneutic experience of the intelligibility of meaning meaning lived and comprehended through the creative transformation of the description of the world-in-itself via cultural narrative. The monetization of such an experience cannot be expressed in terms of the temporality of energy expenditure, but only through the intensity of the spiritual need for the presence of Truth, which cannot have a market price. Not merely the creation of value, but the gifting of it this is the criterion for access to power, the "eye of the needle" for the meritocratic elite of the nooeconomy society: the cognitariat. Forming the cognitariat is the paramount strategic task for Ukraine’s contemporary intellectual elite as they grapple with the challenge and the cost of the war