Memory Altering Technologies and the Capacity to Forgive: Westworld and Volf in Dialogue

I explore the impact of memory altering technologies in the science fiction drama (2016-2020) in order to show that unreconciled altered traumatic memory may lead to a dystopian breakdown of society. I bring Miroslav Volf's theological perspectives on memory into conversation with the plot of W...

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Main Author: Marvin, Michelle A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 713-732
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Volf, Miroslav 1956- / Westworld (Television series) / Trauma / Memory / Enhancement (Medical ethics) / Artificial intelligence / Forgiveness
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Forgiveness
B Technology
B Artificial Intelligence
B Memory
B remembering rightly
B memory altering
B Dystopia
B Miroslav Volf
B Science Fiction
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