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Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity In The Era Of The Internet, Antonio Spadaro S.J., Maria Way
Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity In The Era Of The Internet, Antonio Spadaro S.J., Maria Way
Religion
How has Christianity and theology changed in the wake of the internet and mass communication? Tracing concepts in media studies, anthropology, and theology, Spadaro investigates this complex and enlightening topic.
Heidegger And Our Twenty-First Century Experience Of Ge-Stell, Theoore Kisiel
Heidegger And Our Twenty-First Century Experience Of Ge-Stell, Theoore Kisiel
Research Resources
The author proposes an etymological translation of Ge-Stell , Heidegger’s word for the essence of modern technology, from its Greek and Latin roots as “syn-thetic com-posit[ion]ing,” which presciently portends our twenty-first century experience of the internetted WorldWideWeb with its virtual infinity of websites in cyberspace, Global Positioning Systems, interlocking air traffic control grids, world-embracing weather maps, the 24-7 world news coverage of cable TV-networks like CNN, etc., etc.—all of which are structured by the complex programming based on the computerized and ultimately simple Leibnizian binary-digital logic generating an infinite number of combinations of the posit (1) and non-posit (0). The …