DOCSLIB.ORG

Into the Future Making, Gender, Technology, & Religion from Adam to Androids & Galatea to Tomorrow’S Eve

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Into the Future Making, Gender, Technology, & Religion from Adam to Androids & Galatea to Tomorrow’S Eve Into the Future Making, Gender, Technology, & Religion from Adam to Androids & Galatea to Tomorrow’s Eve Sam Gill University of Colorado - 2017 Into the Future 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... 2 Abstract ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Annotated Table of Contents ............................................................................................... 5 Thumbelina’s Severed Head ............................................................................................. 14 Little Green Sprout ............................................................................................................... 22 Fury Road ................................................................................................................................ 33 Garden of Making and UnmakinG .................................................................................... 43 Ava and the Ultimate Turing Test ................................................................................... 54 Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? ........................................................................ 65 Falling in Love With “Her”: One Singular Sensation ................................................. 77 Made of Clay: Prometheus and Golem ........................................................................... 87 Gender Matters ...................................................................................................................... 92 Creepy Dollies or My Fair Ladies? ................................................................................. 100 I-Robot .................................................................................................................................... 111 Orphans of the Sky: Outside, Movement, & Corporeal Concepts ........................ 120 Violent Delights ................................................................................................................... 130 Robots & the End of Work: The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism ... 147 “Beam Me Up Scotty!” Corporeal Concepts & Posthuman ..................................... 154 The Matrix ............................................................................................................................. 161 Meet Me on the Holodeck! ............................................................................................... 173 ToolsRUs ................................................................................................................................ 183 Cyborg/Metahuman: Future of Gender & Religion ................................................. 192 Watson and the Jeopardy! Test: Machine LearninG ................................................ 204 It is bigger on the inside! TARDIS & Wormholes ..................................................... 216 Secret Hidden Horror ........................................................................................................ 224 Step Again Into the Forge ................................................................................................. 237 Song of Tomorrow’s Eve ................................................................................................... 241 Jesus Wept, Robots Can’t: Religion into the Future ................................................. 254 125,500 words Notes: Expand discussion of Eve in terms of A& E book. Importance of issues of guilt and shame. Of male/female hierarchy. Of knowledge of life and death, etc. How history of Judaeo/Christian has been developed around interpretations of Adam and Into the Future 3 Eve. How Eve is the more interesting figure (difference between Gen 1 and Gen 2, created at once or created from rib). Maybe around 242? Also Mary Wollstonecraft wrote about Eve in her famous treatise. Durer did definitive A&E in 1504. Adam based on Apollo. His print included a reference to his “making” as if he were present in the Garden. Eve was modeled as a composite on a number of models. Milton’s Paradise Lost attempted to follow Augusatine’s desire to take the A&E story literally. Not also that this book was the fundamental education of Frankenstein’s creature. Into the Future 4 Abstract Into the Future examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. The aim is to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered and in some depth are a wide range of specific examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television but also from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature, classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture, technology, and futurist studies. Core notions developed progressively throughout the book include: the fundamental importance of making in understanding technology; the essential religious and gendered foundation of the long history of making; evidence of the rising of a new female-based model (Tomorrow’s Eve) for making; the outlining of a new body-centered theory of harmony differing from the classic theories of Pythagoras and Kepler and how it might assist us into a rich future; the primacy of the self-moving organic body to conception and perception; the distinction and evaluation of the types of cyborgs or amalgams—metahumans—we are becoming; deliberation on the dawning of a post- human and post-religion era; the nature of violence as both constitutive of and a threat to humanity; and the assessment and interpretation of such technological markers as singularity, interface, bit Reality, AI, and robots as they interrelate with distinctively human intelligence, creativity, and emotions. A realistic assessment of the sobering possible perils of the current developments in technology is persistently balanced by optimistic prospects for the future. Into the Future is distinctive, in part, in its drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials. Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop culture, art, and film. Into the Future, written for general as well as academic readers, offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we are and where we are going. Sam Gill, Professor at the University of Colorado, is the author of many books and articles most recently Dancing Culture Religion. Recent work includes Into the Future: Making, Gender, Technology, and Religion from Adam to Androids & Galatea to Tomorrow’s Eve and Creative Encounters: Appreciating Difference; and How the Study of Religion Might Contribute. His research has engaged him in fieldwork in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Latin America, and Native America. His current research is related to perception, conception, gesture/posture/prosthesis, movement, dancing, and body distinctively approached by integrating a wide range of academic and cultural perspectives as well as the experience he has acquired in his long career dancing and moving. Into the Future 5 Annotated Table of Contents Thumbelina’s Severed Head French philosopher Michel Serres’s 2012 Thumbelina reflects on the recent history of advancing technology as inspired by his observation of kids in a school yard all involved in texting. Serres invokes the image of decapitated Saint-Denis on Montmartre in Paris in 250 A.D. holding his own head in his hands as depicted by painter Leon bonnat. Serres recognizes that the school kids thumbing away at their devices seem also to have their heads in their hands. Of course, although they are texting, they also have instant access to almost all knowledge. The chapter surveys the distinctiveness of the present culture of technology and social media. It also discusses the current phase of development that emphasizes thumbs as a key point of interface. This prominence of thumb acuity is placed in the long view of the evolution of human distinctiveness in which the development of the human thumb plays a major role. This chapter seeks to establish the remarkable distinctiveness of the current explosion of electronic digital technology while framing it in the long patterns of history and even human evolution. This Janus approach will characterize this book. Little Green Sprout The presence of a “little green sprout” as a sign of hope (also nostalgia for the innocence of the Garden of Eden) in the dystopian films “WALL-E” (2008) and “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) raises the question of the nature of human making and serves as a reminder of the gendered associations with making and with living fecundity. This chapter focuses on making as a way of considering the distinctiveness of the contemporary interest in technological makings (male dominated) and their imagined/projected futurist trajectories. These futurist concerns are framed in the question of the makings from antiquity—Pygmalion, Prometheus, Genesis—to remind that the discourse is a deeply human and religious one that is ultimately based in such unanswerable questions as Who am I?. What is the nature of my being? Fury Road Pursuing a fuller exploration of “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) against a classical background—the
Load more

Recommended publications
  • From Shadow Citizens to Teflon Stars
    From shadow citizens to teflon stars cultural responses to the digital actor L i s a B o d e A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2004 School of Theatre, Film and Dance University of New South Wales Abstract This thesis examines an intermittent uncanniness that emerges in cultural responses to new image technologies, most recently in some impressions of the digital actor. The history of image technologies is punctuated by moments of fleeting strangeness: from Maxim Gorky’s reading of the cinematographic image in terms of “cursed grey shadows,” to recent renderings of the computer-generated cast of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as silicon-skinned mannequins. It is not merely the image’s unfamiliar and new aesthetics that render it uncanny. Rather, the image is received within a cultural framework where its perceived strangeness speaks allegorically of what it means to be human at that historical moment. In various ways Walter Benjamin, Anson Rabinbach and N. Katherine Hayles have claimed that the notion and the experience of “being human” is continuously transformed through processes related to different stages of modernity including rational thought, industrialisation, urbanisation, media and technology. In elaborating this argument, each of the four chapters is organized around the elucidation of a particular motif: “dummy,” “siren,” “doppelgänger” and “resurrection.” These motifs circulate through discourses on different categories of digital actor, from those conceived without physical referents to those that are created as digital likenesses of living or dead celebrities. These cultural responses suggest that even while writers on the digital actor are speculating about the future, they are engaging with ideas about life, death and identity that are very old and very ambivalent.
    [Show full text]
  • An Analysis of the Cultural Dismissal of Wonder Woman Through Her 1975-1979 Television Series
    Dickinson College Dickinson Scholar Faculty and Staff Publications By Year Faculty and Staff Publications Summer 2018 Casting a Wider Lasso: An Analysis of the Cultural Dismissal of Wonder Woman Through Her 1975-1979 Television Series Ian Boucher Dickinson College Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.dickinson.edu/faculty_publications Part of the American Popular Culture Commons, Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, and the Television Commons Recommended Citation Boucher, Ian. "Casting a Wider Lasso: An Analysis of the Cultural Dismissal of Wonder Woman Through Her 1975-1979 Television Series." Popular Culture Review 29, no. 2 (2018). https://popularculturereview.wordpress.com/29_2_2018/ianboucher/ This article is brought to you for free and open access by Dickinson Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Popular Culture Review Casting a Wider Lasso: An Analysis of the Cultural Dismissal of Wonder Woman Through Her 1975- 1979 Television Series By Ian Boucher “Every successful show has a multitude of fights, and that the shows are successful sometimes are because of those fights. And sometimes shows aren’t successful because those fights aren’t carried on long or hard enough.” -Douglas S. Cramer “And any civilization that does not recognize the female is doomed to destruction. Women are the wave of the future—and sisterhood is…stronger than anything.” -Wonder Woman, The New Original Wonder Woman (7 Nov. 1975) Abstract Live-action superhero films currently play a significant role at the box office, which means they also play a significant role in culture’s understandings about justice.
    [Show full text]
  • Resource Pack INTRODUCTION
    Resource Pack INTRODUCTION KAWS found his way into graffiti through his love of skateboarding as a teenager, often making the short journey into Manhattan from Jersey City. Through graffiti, he put his tag on walls across New York City and began using the pseudonym ‘KAWS’ simply because he liked the way the formations of the letters worked together. After graduating from high school in 1992 he started using billboards and other public advertisements as canvases for his paintings. He began unlocking glass panel covered advertisements to add his own paintings in the studio and replace them in their cases. He used acrylic paint applied with no visible brush strokes, often making it seem like his additions were a part of the original ad. He later said that this wasn’t an attack on advertisers or a rebellion against their campaigns, but more that he chose adverts based on what he was visually attracted to. In 1997 KAWS first visited Japan, somewhere he had always had an interest in and was inspired by the products people in Japan were creating. Also inspired by Pop artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Tom Wesselmann, he began to make editions. KAWS saw creating toys as a way into the world of sculpture, a more conceivable and feasible way to produce his ideas in 3D form. The sculptures he eventually went on to create replicate the look and feel of his toys. He made his first toy, COMPANION in 1999 with Japanese company Bounty Hunter. In 2001 the founder of ‘*A Bathing Ape’ Nigo asked KAWS to collaborate with him on a clothing line.
    [Show full text]
  • LCP 3: the Physics of the Large and Small
    LCP 3: The Physics of the Large and Small …the mere fact that it is matter that makes the larger machine, built of the same material and in the same proportion as the smaller, correspond with exactness to the smaller in every respect except that it will not be so strong ...who does not know that a horse falling from a height of three or four cubits will break his bones, while a dog falling from the same height ... will suffer no injury? (Galileo, in the “Two New Sciences”, 1638) Fig. 1: Taken From Galileo’s Two New Sciences (Book 1) IL 1 *** (Galileo’s “Two New Sciences”: Discussion on scaling, free fall, trajectory motion) IL 2 *** (Galileo’s birthplace in Pisa) … But yet it is easy to show that a hare could not be as large as a hippopotamus or a whale as small as a herring. For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form. All warm blooded animals at rest lose the same amount of heat from a unit area of skin, for which purpose they need a food-supply proportional to their surface and not to their weight. Five thousand mice weigh as much as a man. Their combined surface and food or oxygen consumption are about seventeen times a man’s. In fact a mouse eats about one quarter its own weight of food every day, which is mainly used in keeping it warm. (J.B.S. Haldane, in On Being the Right Size, 1928.
    [Show full text]
  • F16 Art Titles - August 2016 Page 1
    Art Titles Fall 2016 {IPG} Death and Memory Soane and the Architecture of Legacy Helen Dorey, Tom Drysdale, Susan Palmer, Frances S... Summary This book of essays is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (October 23, 2015–March 26, 2016) commemorating the 200th anniversary of Soane's beloved wife Eliza's death on November 22, 1815. Its relevance to Soane studies, is, however, much broader, with essays shedding new light on the architecture of legacy in Sir John Soane's Museum; Soane's preoccupation with memorialization as revealed in the design process for the Soane family tomb; the legacy of his drawings collection; and Soane's Pimpernel Press attempt shortly before his death to sustain future interest in his collections by creating a series of 9780993204111 time capsules. The essays, written by the curatorial team at Sir John Soane's Museum, are Pub Date: 9/28/16 accompanied by 39 illustrations in full color, some of them published for the first time. Ship Date: 9/28/16 $16.95/$33.95 Can. Contributor Bio Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback Helen Dorey is Deputy Director and Inspectress of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Tom Drysdale was the Museum's Soane Drawings Cataloguer and now works for Historic Royal Palaces. Susan Palmer is 48 Pages Archivist and Head of Library Services at Sir John Soane's Museum. Dr. Frances Sands is Catalogue Carton Qty: 70 Editor of the Adam Drawings Project, Sir John Soane's Museum. Architecture / Historic Preservation ARC014000 11 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.2 in T | 0.6 lb Wt A Whakapapa of Tradition One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930 Ngarino Ellis, Natalie Robertson Summary From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930.
    [Show full text]
  • Previews #306 (Vol. Xxiv #3, Mar14)
    PREVIEWS #306 (VOL. XXIV #3, MAR14) PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS PREVIEWS #308 MAY 2014 THIS MONTH’S COVER ART: New projects from Image and DC! THIS MONTH’S THEME: Women in Comics! Since 1988, PREVIEWS has been your ultimate source for all of the comics and merchandise to be available from your local comic book shop… revealed up to two months in advance! Hundreds of comics and graphic novels from the best comic publishers; the coolest pop-culture merchandise on Earth; plus PREVIEWS exclusive items available nowhere else! Now more than ever, PREVIEWS is here to show the tales, toys and treasures in your future! This May issue features items scheduled to ship in July 2014 and beyond. Catalog, 8x11, 500+pg, PC $4.50 PREVIEWS #308 CUSTOMER ORDER FORM — MAY 2014 PREVIEWS makes it easy for you to order every item in the catalog with this separate order form booklet! This May issue features items scheduled to ship in July 2014 and beyond. Comic-sized, 62pg, PC PI MARVEL PREVIEWS VOLUME 2 #22 Each issue of Marvel Previews is a comic book-sized, 120-page, full-color guide and preview to all of Marvel’s upcoming releases — it’s your #1 source for advanced information on Marvel Comics! This May issue features items scheduled to ship in July 2014 and beyond. FREE w/Purchase of PREVIEWS Comic-sized, 120pg, FC $1.25 COMICS SECTION PREMIER VENDORS DARK HORSE COMICS HATSUNE MIKU: UNOFFICIAL HATSUNE MIX TP KEI (W/A/Cover) On sale July 2 FC/b&w, 480 pages $19.99 TP, 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" Who's that girl with the long green ponytails you've been seeing everywhere? It's Hatsune Miku, the Vocaloid—the synthesizer superstar who's singing your song! She's a global cyber celebrity and a cosplay favorite at conventions.
    [Show full text]
  • An Assessment of the Development of the Female in Commercial Science Fiction Film
    An Assessment of the Development of the Female in Commercial Science Fiction Film being a Thesis submitted for the Degree of PhD in the University of Hull by Dean Turner (BA Hons) October 1998 To SJD Contents Acknowledgements iv Text Note v Introduction 1 PART ONE Chapter l 19 Gender Positioning: The Traditional Science Fiction Film Chapter 2 78 Ideology: The Commercial Science Fiction Film PART TWO Chapter 3 148 Mutation: 1970s Developments Chapter 4 195 Patriarchal Pendulum: Polarised Development of the Female Character Chapter 5 229 Patriarchal Crucible: Composite Development of the Female Character Chapter 6 265 Inverting and Subverting Patriarchy Chapter 7 311 Competition with Patriarchy Conclusion 347 Literature Cited 372 Films Cited 391 Science Fiction Films 393 Non Science Fiction Films 410 Hi Acknowledgements Support during the research and writing of this thesis has been generous and manifold, material and moral. As it would ultimately be too restrictive to aim to enumerate the specific help offered by individuals, I would like simply to offer my sincere gratitude to each of the following for their invaluable patience and assistance: My Supervisors, John Harris and Keith Peacock; and to My Family, Tim Bayliss, Jean and John Britton, A1 Childs, Anita De, Sarah-Jane Dickenson, Craig Dundas-Grant, Jacquie Hanham, Harry Harris, Tim Hatcher, Audrey Hickey, Anaick Humbert, Nike Imoru, Abigail Jackson, Irene Jackson, David Jefferies, Roy Kemp, Bob Leake, Gareth Magowan, Makiko Mikami, Zoie Miller, Barbara Newby, Isobel Nixon, Patricia Pilgrim, Paul Richards, David Sibley Ruth Stuckey, Lesley Tucker, Gail Vickers, Susan Walton, Debbie Waters, Graham Watson, and Rowlie Wymer; and to The Staff and Students of Hull High School, The British Film Institute, and The British Library.
    [Show full text]
  • Consumer of 5-43.Qxd 7/13/2007 11:52 AM Page 5
    Consumer OF 5-43.qxd 7/13/2007 11:52 AM Page 5 Order PREVIEWS Form AUG V17#8 ORDER DEADLINE: AUGUST 11, 2007 PLACE STORE STAMP HERE Name _____________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________ City ________________________State _________________________ Zip _______________ Phone# ________________________________ Email Address _____________________________________________ Signature (Required) _______________________________________ Your signature indicates that you are authorized to order items that are designated as “Adult,” and you are at least 18 years old. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY! QTY TITLE PRICE Please note that the toy items on this order form may not be available at every store. Shipping times and prices may vary. For items sold by assortment (marked with an "*"), retailers cannot guarantee receiving specific items. Ask your retailer for more information when you order. PAGE 2 PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS ____________AUG07 0001 PREVIEWS VOL XVII #10 (Net) ..............................................................................................MSRP: $4.50 = $ ______________ FI __________AUG07 0002 MARVEL PREVIEWS OCTOBER 2007 EXTRAS (Net) ................................................................MSRP: $0.99 = $ ______________ ____________AUG07 0003 PREVIEWS VOL XVII CONSUMER ORDER FORM #10 (Net)..............................................................SRP: PI = $ ______________ ____________AUG07 0005 PREVIEWS ADULT VOL XVII #10 (Net)....................................................................................MSRP:
    [Show full text]
  • University Microfilms Copyright 1981 by James, Navita Eloise Cummings
    8115115 Ja m e s , N avtta E l o is e C u m m in g s TELEVISION GAMES CHILDREN PLAY: CHILDREN’S COMMUNICATIVE USES OF TELEVISION The Ohio Stale University Ph.D. 1981 University Microfilms International 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Copyright 1981 by James, Navita Eloise Cummings All Rights Reserved TELEVISION GAMES CHILDREN PLAY: CHILDREN'S COMMUNICATIVE USES OF TELEVISION DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fu lfillm ent of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Navita Cummings James, B.A., M.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 1981 Reading Committee: Approved By Joseph M. Foley Thomas A. McCain Victor D. Wall Adviser Department of Communication dedicated to Tammy (age four) and Teddy (age fiv e ) who taught me th e ir worlds of tel evision were very d iffe re n t from my world of television ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am deeply indebted to the children of the day care center, the day care center staff, and the children's parents for their participation in this research. Sage Publications, Inc0, is to be thanked fo r th e ir permission to quote from Children in Front of the Small Screen by Grant Noble. I would like to acknowledge my adviser for his continued interest and enthusiasm for this project and fo r his continued demand for excellence. He has provided for me and others an example of what it truly means to be a "scholar." My family deserves special thanks fo r the continuous fa ith and support they have given me.
    [Show full text]
  • Neevia Docconverter 5.1 Jurado Para Examen De Grado
    UNAM Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas Posgrado en Artes Visuales Título de la Tesis El Género Fantasy Art Análisis del estilo y sus estrategias de creación Tesis que para obtener el grado de Maestro en Artes Visuales con orientación en Grabado. Presenta el alumno: Constantino Cabello Iturbe Director de Tesis: M.A.V. Quintanilla Silva María Eugenia Agosto 2008 Neevia docConverter 5.1 Jurado para examen de grado Presidente DR. Víctor Frías Salazar. Vocal MTRA. María Eugenia Quintanilla Silva. Secretario MTRO. Pablo Estevez Kubli. Suplente MTRA. Ivonne López Martínez. Suplente LIC. Alejandro Pérez Cruz. Neevia docConverter 5.1 a Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890) “Al buscar sus pasos, me enseño otro pasaje de su andar, que hoy está presente en mi camino.“ Neevia docConverter 5.1 Neevia docConverter 5.1 ÍNDICE OBJETIVO DEFINICIÓN DEL PROYECTO INTRODUCCIÓN Fantasía y realidades en la Humanidad Terminología del género Ciencia Ficción y Fantasy Art CAPÍTULO I / RESEÑA HISTÓRICA Y CONCEPTUAL Fantasy Art en la Literatura Autores que ven más allá de su tiempo Fantasy Art en la Cinematografía El desarrollo cinematográfico y el Fantasy Art El Fantasy Art y sus ámbitos Creativos, artistas y realidades Fantasy Art y sus diferencias conceptuales Arte imaginativo Realismo fantástico Contemporary Fantastic Art Fantasy Art La estructura conceptual Artistas visuales Fantasy Art CAPÍTULO 2 / CREACIÓN Y APLICACIÓN Creación de personajes y animación La mitología como creación creativa La fantasía entre hombres y dinosaurios La mitología en la creación de
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography
    Bibliography Abrams, Jerrold J. (2008) ‘The Dialectics of Enlightenment in Metropolis’, in The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film, ed. Steven Sanders, Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 153–170. Ackerman, Spencer (2008) ‘Iron Man versus the Imperialists’, The American Prospect, http:// prospect.org/article/iron-man-versus-imperialists. Agamben, Giorgio (1988) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. Agamben, Giorgio (2002) The Open: Man and Animals, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Agamben, Giorgio (2005) The State of Exception, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Agar, Nicholas (2010) Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement,Boston: The MIT Press. Alaimo, Stacy (2010) Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, Bloomington, IN/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Aldiss, Brian W. (1973) Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Allison, Tanine (2011) ‘More than a Man in a Monkey Suit: Andy Serkis, Motion Capture, and Digital Realism’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28.4: 325–341. Alloi, Giovanni (2012) Art and Animals, London: I.B.Tauris. Anders, Günther (1956/1992) Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Ueber die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution, Munich: Beck. Anderson, Amanda (2001) The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Annas, George, Lori Andrews and Rosario Isasi (2002) ‘Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations’, American Journal of Law and Medicine 28.2–3: 151–178. Arendt, Hannah (1992) Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, New York: Penguin.
    [Show full text]
  • Religion and Technology Into the Future DRAFT Studies in Body and Religion
    DRAFT Religion and Technology into the Future DRAFT Studies in Body and Religion Series Editors: Richard M. Carp, Saint Mary’s College of California and Julia Huang Lemmon, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Studies in Body and Religion publishes contemporary research and theory that addresses body as a fundamental category of analysis in the study of religion. Embodied humans conceive of, study, transmit, receive, and practice religion, with and through their bodies and bodily capacities. Volumes in this series will include diverse examples and perspec- tives on the roles and understandings of body in religion, as well as the influence and importance of religion for body. They will also move conversation on body and religion forward by problematizing “body,” which, like “religion,” is a contested concept. We do not know exactly what religion is, nor do we know exactly what body is, either; much less do we understand their mutual interpenetrations. This series aims to address this by bringing multiple understandings of body into an arena of conversation. Titles in the Series Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health and Longevity, by Shawn Arthur Dancing Culture Religion, by Sam Gill Risky Marriage: HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania, by Melissa Browning Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam, by Katherine C. Zubko Sacred Scents in Early Islam and Christianity, by Mary Thurlkill Sensing Sacred: Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care, by Jennifer Baldwin Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve, by Sam Gill DRAFT Religion and Technology into the Future From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve Sam Gill LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham • Boulder • New York • London DRAFT Published by Lexington Books An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
    [Show full text]