The Sacred and the Profane in the Digital Age: From Eliade to Algorithms

This text offers a profound phenomenological analysis of contemporary times, juxtaposing Mircea Eliade's classic concepts with the realities of the algorithmic era. The author examines how everyday interactions with technology—from checking email to social media—are taking on a quasi-religious character, creating new forms of the sacred. He introduces the concept of technophany as a contemporary counterpart to hierophany, where the interface becomes the new axis mundi. The article critically examines the condition of homo digitalis, who searches for authenticity and transcendence in the thicket of simulacra and algorithmic time. Through the category of provisio, the reader learns to distinguish deep meaning from marketing parodies of the sacred, discovering the eschatological dimension of artificial intelligence and digital rites of passage.