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Zusatztext Amidst the multiple afterlives of unorthodox theological reflection! Charlie Gere offers a fresh new voice in Unnatural Theology . He reserves only the name of God as an empty signifier! but this name continues to offer important insights. This concise but sweeping vision combines theory with explorations of media technologies! including photography! pornography! and pop art! to mine the border between belief and nonbelief for what remains significant for any credible theology today. Informationen zum Autor Charlie Gere is a Professor of Media Theory and History in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. He is author of Digital Culture (2002/2008), Art, Time and Technology (2006), and Community without Community in Digital Culture (2012), and co-editor of White Heat Cold Logic (2009), and Art Practice in a Digital Culture (2010).Exploring the possibilities of religion and theology in the context of our technological society, this book argues that access to God in modern age is available by means of media. Zusammenfassung The failure of secular modernity to deliver on its promise of progress and enlightenment leaves a void that religion is rushing to fill. Yet what kind of religious thinking and doing can be adequate to our posthuman condition? And how can we avoid either embracing religious fundamentalism and fantasy or remaining mired in hopeless atheistic nihilism? In Unnatural Theology Charlie Gere provides ways of thinking about the possibilities of religion and theology in the context of our highly technologized postmodernity. Taking its cue from a wide range of thinkers, from John Ruskin and Alfred North Whitehead, to Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Simon Critchley, Catherine Keller, Bruno Latour, and Timothy Morton, and artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton, and films including The Incredible Shrinking Man, the book seeks the remnants of theology and religion in the realms of technology and media, and also art, as the basis of potential new religious thinking. Through an interdisciplinary engagement with these thinkers and artists it develops the notion of an unnatural theology as the basis of a new kind of religious thought that does not insult our intelligence. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. An Unnatural Theology for the Anthropocene2. The Silence of God3. Corpus Mystical Anarchism4. Ruskin’s Haunted Nature5. Photography in the Time that Remains6. Whore Text7. Pop Eschatology8. Looking Down from Ingleborough9. The Incredible Shrinking Human10. Of Clouds and the Cloud11. God: In Black and WhiteGlossaryBibliography...
