Purifying Dirty Computers: Cyborgs, Sex, Christ, and Otherness
Virtual reality, especially neural network technology, provides a theologically imaginative experience of otherness that disrupts racialized, sexual, and cultural logics that undergird dominant Christian white cisheterosexual theologies. These technologies not only enable users to "walk a mile...
| Subtitles: | "Theologies of the Digital, II" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg University Publishing
2023
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Year: 2023, Volume: 4, Pages: 43-62 |
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| Summary: | Virtual reality, especially neural network technology, provides a theologically imaginative experience of otherness that disrupts racialized, sexual, and cultural logics that undergird dominant Christian white cisheterosexual theologies. These technologies not only enable users to "walk a mile in another's shoes" or the other they wish they were, users feel, embody, and are other in ways only hinted at by Jesus' hybrid existence proposed in Matthew 25: 35-46. I use a digital sexual storytelling method to explore an indecent incarnational theology of the cyborg which uncovers the persistence of anti-blackness and anti-queerness in digital Christain theology as well as evidences strategies of indecency to combat them. |
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| ISSN: | 2699-3406 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17885/heiup.czeth.2023.4.24703 |