Who and How Produces the Future (A.A. Fedorov’s New Philosophy of Common Cause)

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2025. Vol. 95. No. 1. P. 108–115.

G. L. Tulchinskii

A reflection of A.A. Fedorov’s project on the analysis of the future and the model of its production is considered. This model makes it possible to correlate the factors of agency and sociality in the process of such production. Special attention is paid to Fedorov’s idea of the key role of children and childhood in the production of the future, the typology of actors in this process. The proposed concept and model create a fruitful and rewarding field for further interdisciplinary research. Thus, from the positions of social semantics and pragmasemantics, the production of the future appears as a form of meaning making and its institutionalization, revealing itself in the cascade of interfaces of interaction of contexts of sociocultural practices. In this case, agency as a universal interface of such interaction plays a key role. In this regard, the nontrivial potential of the problem is revealed by a comparative analysis of natural and artificial intelligence. Since man has an “advantage” of bodily experience, sexual dimorphism, and other vitality compared to artificial intelligence, the future is largely founded on this vitality, on its result, which is children. Therefore, the question of the possibility of control and the ethos of producing the future, the balance of admissibility/inadmissibility of the means used in this process is also important.

Keywords: детство, будущее, смыслообразование, Childhood, agency, future, meaning making, агентивность, прагмасемантика, Production of the future, pragmasemantics, производство будущего