Secondary Sacredness- Sacredness in an Information-Communication Era

Abstract

The era in which information rules over the prose of life, is the era that will uncover mediation as a mechanism of 'creating a surplus of symbolic value'. Man turned into a sign, a symbol, will be aware of his slavery to the idols of progress, technological glass beads, the emptiness of language and labyrinths of logical-grammatical-geometricalmathematical so-called wisdom. New forms of sacredness (which have been introduced after the holy word, holy scripture, holy places) and are revealed in the form of sacred football clubs, holy nations, etc. are merely proof of the historical process of the loss of aura which has been speeded up by mechanical reproduction.