TRANSFORMING THE GEOCULTURAL WORLD SYSTEM: THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION
The article discusses the current problem of modernity: the slowdown and inhibition of the processes of globalization, which is the primary basis for civilizational development, in the geocultural world system. According to the methodology of systems analysis, complex structured systems, in their development, reach the limits of complexity processes, which are transformed into decomposition or simplification processes due to the development of hierarchically arranged levels as structural elements of complex systems. Currently, in the development of the global world system, there are processes of suspension of universalization and the transfer of centers for further development to the macro-regional level and, therefore, to the level of competing civilizational geocultural spaces. In Russian scientific literature, two opposing approaches have developed to the basic foundations of competing civilizational spaces that claim that (1) sociocultural foundations or (2) technological foundations are at the core of civilizations. Therefore, it is important to determine the role of the potential of geocultural elements in the evolution of the global world system. For this, it is necessary to consider the value foundations of civilizational development as the interaction of dominant sociocultural systems and counter-systems in modern heterogeneous structural elements of competing civilizations. The tendency in Russian globalism is to prioritize the role of technological development, which is reflected in the works of A.N. Chumakov, a prominent researcher of globalization processes. Contrary to this tendency, relying on the works of N.Ya. Danilevsky, N.A. Berdyaev and M.S. Kagan, the authors of the article seek to show the dominant role of culture in civilizational development. They draw attention to the fact that it is the contradictions in the axiological systems of civilizations that cause conflicts at points of bifurcation in the modern development of the global world system as a social systemic integrity. This system, having reached the limits of complication in its evolution, transfers the emphasis of development to its constituent social subsystems - above all - to civilizational geocultural megaregions, which are structural elements of the geocultural world system.