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The capacity of human beings to invent, construct and use technical
artifacts is a hugely consequential factor in the evolution of
society, and in the entangled relations between humans, other
creatures and their natural environments. Moving from a critical
consideration of theories, to narratives about technology, and then
to particular and specific practices, Technofutures, Nature and the
Sacred seeks to arrive at a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective
focusing attention on the intersection between technology, religion
and society and using insights from the environmental humanities.
It works from both theoretical and practical contexts by using
newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil
carbon technologies, and breaks open new ground by engaging
theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the
technology/religion/nature nexus. Encouraging us to reflect on the
significance and place of religious beliefs in dealing with new
technologies, and engaging critical theory common in sociological,
political and literary discourses, the authors explore the implicit
religious claims embedded in technology.
The capacity of human beings to invent, construct and use technical
artifacts is a hugely consequential factor in the evolution of
society, and in the entangled relations between humans, other
creatures and their natural environments. Moving from a critical
consideration of theories, to narratives about technology, and then
to particular and specific practices, Technofutures, Nature and the
Sacred seeks to arrive at a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective
focusing attention on the intersection between technology, religion
and society and using insights from the environmental humanities.
It works from both theoretical and practical contexts by using
newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil
carbon technologies, and breaks open new ground by engaging
theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the
technology/religion/nature nexus. Encouraging us to reflect on the
significance and place of religious beliefs in dealing with new
technologies, and engaging critical theory common in sociological,
political and literary discourses, the authors explore the implicit
religious claims embedded in technology.
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Tomas Saraceno (Paperback)
Tomas Saraceno; Text written by Italo Calvino, Jussi Parikka, Michael Marder, Franklin Ginn, …
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In this book experts in the environment, theology and science argue
that the challenge posed to society by biotechnology lies not only
in terms of risk/benefit analysis of individual genetic
technologies and interventions, but also has implications for the
way we think about human identity and our relationship to the
natural world. Such a profound--they would suggest
religious--challenge requires a response that is genuinely
interdisciplinary in nature, a conversation that draws as much on
expertise in theology and philosophy as on the natural sciences and
risk assessment techniques. They argue that an adequate response
must also be sociologically informed in at least two ways. First it
must draw on contemporary sociological insights about contemporary
cultural change, the complex role of expert knowledge in modern
complex society and the specific social dynamics of contemporary
technological risks. Secondly, it must endeavour to pay sensitive
attention to the voice of the lay public in the current controversy
over the new genetics. This book attempts to realise such an aim,
as a contribution not just to academic scholarship, but also to the
public debate about biotechnology and its regulation. Thus the
collection includes contributions from scholars in a range of
intellectual domains (indeed, many of the chapters themselves draw
on more than one discipline in new and challenging ways). The book
invites the reader to enter into this conversation in a creative
way and come to appreciate more fully the many-sided nature of the
debate.
Environmental and risk issues are symptomatic of deep-seated social and cultural tensions and transformations in the fabric of contemporary societies. This major contribution to the study of risk, ecology, and the place of social theory in making sense of the environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in so-called risk societies. In this volume, the issues of risk and environment are explored at three levels. The contributors offer a critical assessment of dominant institutional ways of thinking and talking about risk and counterpose these with more open, self-critical approaches. They explore individuals' sense of risk and its expression in collective insecurities and they show how political thinking and debate on risk and environmentalism has been, and can further be, transformed. Wide-ranging and accessible, Risk, Environment & Modernity contains contributions from leading scholars, including Ulrich Beck, author of Risk Society. It will rapidly establish itself as the key text in the field and will be required reading by students of sociology, political science, geography, and environmental studies. "This is the strongest edited collection on the relationship between modernity, risk and the environment to be published to date and it deserves a place on the book shelf of every one who takes these issues seriously. Perhaps more importantly this book needs to be read by everyone who thinks that existing responses will ultimately 'solve the environmental problem.' The editors present the collection as a slow manifesto capable of transforming the reductionism and realism they see dominating both natural and social scientific approaches to the environment. In twelve essays, organized into three sections, considerable progress is made toward this ambitious goal. . . . This is a book with an important message one can only hope that it is read and widely debated." --a prepublication review in Environmental Politics
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