Abstract: The article, addressing the processes of technical and technological renewal and transformation of modern culture, comprehensively analyzes the phenomenon of the emergence of a new branch of socio-cultural and scientific-philosophical knowledge – technosophy. Special attention is paid to the research and purposeful study of the changes taking place in private and general scientific and philosophical methodology after the emergence of technosophy and its consolidation as an independent field of knowledge about the world of technology surrounding man.
The subject of the research is technosophy as a new branch of modern scientific and philosophical knowledge. Given the relevance and degree of elaboration of the research topic, we point out that the main problem of the study lies in the lack of a holistic understanding of this industry, as well as the heuristic significance of the methodological resources used by it in understanding the existence of man, society and culture. The methodological and theoretical basis of the research was a scientific and theoretical analysis of the history of philosophical thought, dialectical principles of development, objectivity and a concrete historical approach, which are of the most important methodological importance in the study of technosophy. The study uses general scientific principles of cognition in their concretization in relation to the study of society, as well as a comparative method for the study of technosophy. Technosophy is considered as a set of ways and approaches to reveal the essence of the processes of interaction between the person himself and the objects of technology created by him. It is noted that the modern cultural and historical era, in terms of acquiring new features, is marked by a radical change in the overall role and purpose of technical devices in human life and society. The authors consider the processes of updating and transforming the traditional scientific and philosophical methodology of studying and analyzing the world of technology from the point of view of forming a new cultural axiology, searching for solutions to problems related to this process. The authors conclude that Modern man and humanity, tightly surrounded by the technosphere they created from all sides, are entering an era of radical revision and changes in all the basic parameters of optimizing their own existence. In this regard, technosophy can act as a new branch of scientific and philosophical knowledge, describing not only these changes, but also the thinking of modern man.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the concept of "technology" in the history of philosophical thought. The authors have consistently analyzed the psychological, symbolic and socio-cultural factors of influence on the processes of the origin and evolution of technology, which is represented in the history, primarily of classical philosophy, in the form of metaphors of "machine" and "mechanism". This research focus makes it possible to study the interaction of human and technical in a historically and culturally mediated philosophical discourse.
In conclusion, a brief overview of the models of representation of technology and the image of a person associated with it as a machine or mechanism dominating in modern information culture is given, epistemological philosophical and natural scientific factors of the functioning of this process are highlighted, and a conclusion is made about the dominant concept of technology as a "supporting structure" of modern culture Using the comparative method, ancient, medieval, and modern concepts of technology, as well as the binary opposition of "man–machine" formed by it, are studied. For the first time, the reconstruction of the concept of technology was carried out through the analysis of socio-cultural discourse in philosophical constructions. The role of these constructions in culture is determined. The authors came to the following conclusions:
1. The genesis of the concept of technology was associated with the understanding of technology as technology, but technology in ancient thought was a broader concept, denoting the totality of artificial human activity represented in technology (specific objects, images) as a means of defining reality.
2. The "supporting structure" of the concept of technology in Western European culture are the metaphors of "machine" and "mechanism", which laid the foundations for understanding man in a post-industrial society.
3. Modern culture can be considered as a technical and technological reality that continues the reconstruction of the metaphor of the "machine" that has developed in the history of philosophical thought.