Cyborg Theology
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-787-6 (ISBN)
In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.
Scott A Midson is Samuel Ferguson Research Assistant in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, where he obtained his PhD in 2012. Specializing in religion and technology and religion and new media, he is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology, where he delivered a paper in 2016 on the topic of 'Black Mirrors.' Cyborg Theology is his first book.
INTRODUCTION
Why Cyborgs and Theology?
Technologies and theologies
What is a cyborg?
Engaging theology with the cyborg
Theoretical foundations: (Hi)stories
PART I
1. Imago Dei: Anthropogeny & Theological Anthropology
What does it mean to be ‘human’?
Theological models of the human
Substantive interpretations: Essentially human?
Functional models: Performing the human?
Relational models: Assembling the human?
Beyond relational models: Critiquing the human?
2. Nature & Human Nature
Nature, humans, technology
Nature and otherness: Eden
Nature and humanness (1): Imago dei
Nature and humanness (2): Freedom and Fall
Nature-as-essence: Substantive interpretations
3. Posthumanism: The End(s) of the Human?
Pluralising the posthuman
Expansions of the human: Transhumans
Limits of the human: Evolutionary posthumans
Querying the human: Critical post/humans
Alternative articulations of the human: Cyborgs
PART II
4. Cybernetics and Organisms: Fusions
Systems and cyborgs
Astronautic cyborgs
‘Healthy’ cyborgs
SF cyborgs
5. Figurative Cyborgs: Confusions
Non-teleological cyborgs
We, cyborgs
Natural-born cyborgs
Post-cyborgs?
PART III
6. Creation, Creatures and Creativity
Creative cyborgs and created co-creators
Imago dei and creativity
Cyborgs, god(s), and goddesses
7. Eden: Return or Refigure?
Ruptures: Eden/cyborgs
Continuities: Eden-cyborgs
Implosions: Cyborgs in the garden
Articulations: Return to Eden?
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CONCLUSION
Doing Difference Differently: Towards a
Cyborg Theology
Cyborgisation
Fabulation
Implosion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.11.2017 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 466 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78453-787-X / 178453787X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78453-787-6 / 9781784537876 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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