The technological imaginary: bringing myth and imagination into dialogue with Bronislaw Szerszynski's "Nature, Technology and the Sacred"
DeLashmutt, Michael
Date: 1 December 2006
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Zygon
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Wiley Blackwell
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Abstract
Bronislaw Szerszynski’s Nature, Technology and the Sacred offers a fresh look into the historical, cultural and political implications of technology-use in our contemporary situation. By challenging the standard interpretation of the secularisation thesis, the text opens the door to a new kind of postmodern ordering of the sacred, ...
Bronislaw Szerszynski’s Nature, Technology and the Sacred offers a fresh look into the historical, cultural and political implications of technology-use in our contemporary situation. By challenging the standard interpretation of the secularisation thesis, the text opens the door to a new kind of postmodern ordering of the sacred, which includes our ever developing perception of the environment and our ongoing usage of technology. In my dialogue with the text, I suggest that Szerszynski’s argument could have been furthered by exploring the role played by both imagination and myth in creating the postmodern sacred which he describes in the text. I argue that by giving consideration to Friedrich Dessauer’s Christian theology of technology and the mythical imagination of contemporary science fiction literature and film, a more explicitly religious dimension of technology can be allowed to emerge, in the form of the technological imaginary.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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