MODERN CULTURE AND VIRTUAL REALITY: DIALECTICS OF INTERACTION

The article investigates the problem of virtual reality in contemporary culture at the level of its various aspects (education, science, politics, religion, art). According to the author, virtuality can not be linked exclusively to the "computer format", since it has long functioned in such spheres of culture as religion with its transcendental dimension, political and legal ideals, scientific abstractions, the artistic world of literature and art, etc. Online technologies that facilitate the construction of virtual reality, open up new horizons to modern culture, but at the same time they give rise to new problems.