ACTIVITY-BASED KNOWLEDGE-INFORMATION THEORY OF VALUE: CONCEPTUAL AND SENSORIAL-EMOTIONAL THEORETICAL MODELS

Abstract

The conceptual and sensorial-emotional theoretical models (schemes) of the activity-based knowledge-information theory of value (AKITV) or the activity-based theory of the knowledge-information product value are considered. The main ontological (recent co-revolution, integrative picture of economic reality), gnoseological (post-nonclassicism, critical realism, trialectic, integrative method), axiological (universals of culture, ethos of science) and praxeological (imperatives of syntagmatic revolution) prerequisites and the interval of truth for AKITV are defined, as well as its place in the temporal space of the general theory of value and fundamental economic science. Considering the dialectic of the general and the particular, the conceptual makeup and structure of AKITV as a special theory of value in a broad sense, that is, a complex synergistic-type system, a unity of interconnected and interacting theoretical schemes (models) as its subsystems, is proposed. The conceptual theoretical scheme is a kind of avant-garde in AKITV. Sensorial-emotional, empirical-abstract and fundamental theoretical schemes correspond to the descending steps in ascent from the sensorial-concrete to the utterly abstract. Fundamental, partial ("distribution", "exchange", "consumption") and integral partial-applied theoretical schemes correspond to the ascending steps in ascent from the studied and ordered abstract image of the object to the general concrete one. The immediate object of AKITV is the production of a knowledge-information product in the broad sense, as well as cognitive activity (its attributes and outcomes), which is performed in the spheres of humanization and objectification of the modern information and digital economy. The subject space of AKITV is represented by value relations between actors in the process of production in a broad sense and cognitive activity concerning the process itself and its main outcomes, primarily the knowledge-information product. The technical-economic, general economic, socio-economic and organizational-economic dimensions of AKITV are indicated. In the sensorial-emotional theoretical model, the economic value of a sensorial-emotional knowledge-information product as an image of the surface layer of an existing real object is emphasized.