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- Title
The Tools that B(l)ind: Technology as a New Theology.
- Authors
Deagon, Alex
- Abstract
Technology is a new theology. Substantively, technology represents the culmination of human creation undergirded by reason, without reference to the supernatural. In that sense, technology is a kind of secular substitute for theology. Functionally, through its ubiquity and esoteric rules that govern our lives so comprehensively, technology echoes the binding nature of theology as a subset of religion (from religare, meaning ‘to rebind’). However, the binding nature of techno-secular theology produces biopolitical violence. In this article, I propose that recognition (‘re-cognition’) of technology as techne, a tool to be used for good, rather than a religare, a binding, warrants a return to a theological framework to develop a more charitable community. This will facilitate the development and improvement of theology as a means of exploring mystery.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGY; BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy); RELIGION; THEOLOGY; SUPERNATURAL
- Publication
Law, Technology & Humans, 2021, Vol 3, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
2652-4074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5204/lthj.v3i1.1566