Cyborg Theology: Humans, Technology and God

ISBN-13: 9781784537876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Scott A. Midson

Opis

The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and technology.

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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? viii Cyborg Theology CONCLUSION Doing Difference Differently: Towards a Cyborg Theology Cyborgisation Fabulation Implosion