Toxic Creativity, Deep Time, and Moral Pleasure: An Ecospirituality of Technology
Christian ecological theology is usually suspicious of technological creativity. With the unwieldy anthropocentric history of progress and human dominion over the ecological world, human technological creativity often is complied in ecological waste and colonization. In our present moment, situated...
| Published in: | Concilium |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Concilium
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Technics
/ Creativity
/ Environmental ethics
/ Spirituality
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CF Christianity and Science NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
| Further subjects: | B
Creative Thinking
B Pleasure |
| Summary: | Christian ecological theology is usually suspicious of technological creativity. With the unwieldy anthropocentric history of progress and human dominion over the ecological world, human technological creativity often is complied in ecological waste and colonization. In our present moment, situated in the Anthropocene, how might we reimagine human technological development in a way that re-focuses technology in the flows of planetary life? Focusing on recent 'geologic' turns in scholarship from the emergent fields of new media studies and environmental humanities, this paper argues for a new ecospirituality of technology. A 'slow' spirituality and ethic of technology might help 1) meditate on modes of disembodied, toxic creativity that contributes to ongoing forms of ecocide and ecological colonization, 2) situate moral imagination of technological progress in the 'deep time' of the planet, and 3) pay attention to the fullness of environmental despair and collaborative moral pleasure needed in the present moment. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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