Pierre Bourdieu’s, Jacques Lacan’s and Roland Posner’s Concepts as the Basis for Explaining the Mechanisms of Information Warfare

Abstract

This paper focuses on identifying the explanatory potential of certain philosophical and socio-humanitarian concepts in explaining the mechanisms of modern information warfare within the framework of sign-symbolic and cultural-semiotic approaches. The paper represents the concepts of symbolic violence by Pierre Bourdieu, the unconscious and divided subject by Jacques Lacan and cultural expansion by Roland Posner. A related task is to clarify the author’s position regarding the definition of the concept of information war as well as the classification and specifics of today’s information war. The main research method is a discursive analysis of relevant philosophical and social-humanitarian scientific texts, as well as projecting the results of this analysis onto modern information and communication practice.