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Virtually Sacred
Millions of users have taken up residence in virtual worlds, and in those worlds they find opportunities to revisit and rewrite their religious lives. Robert M. Geraci argues that virtual worlds and video games have become a locus for the satisfaction of religious needs, providing many users with devoted communities, opportunities for ethical reflection, a meaningful experience of history and human activity, and a sense of transcendence. Using interviews, surveys, and his own first-hand experience within the virtual worlds, Geraci shows how World of Warcraft and Second Life provide participants with the opportunity to rethink what it means to be religious in the contemporary world. Not all p...
Stories in Post-Human Cultures
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This volume represents the collective visions of twenty-one post-humanist cyberculture scholars. The complimentary and dissenting voices within have been organized into three categories for this work, the first within the general category of Post-Humanism, what it is, why it is important, and what we as ‘pre post-human humans’ currently know about our culture and the direction it is taking us towards the eventual post-human times. Next, venture into the Cultures in Cyberspace which are shaping our future worlds today, for to understand the culture of our interconnectedness is to begin to appreciate the impossibly complex intricacies of the coming age of connectedness. To this end, New Narrativism becomes our gateway to this future.
Navigating Cybercultures
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This ebook provides an overview of the research presented at the seventh annual Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction conference, hosted by Inter-Disciplinary.Net at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2012. Ranging from analyses of virtual spaces and cyberpunk fiction to critical examinations of posthumanism and online behaviour, with numerous fascinating detours along the way, these interdisciplinary and international perspectives provide further evidence, if any was needed, that our lives are intricately networked and connected—across digital, fictional, intellectual, and posthuman spaces. In one way or another, the chapters collected here all attempt to navigate these spaces.
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care
With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories' cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present? Building on insights from political theory, social epistemology, and feminist and critical race theory, Mihai argues that a double erasure often structures hegemonic narratives of complex violence: of widespread, heterogeneous complicity and of "impure" resistances, not easily subsumed to exceptionalist heroic models. In dialogue with care ethicists and philosophers of art, she then sugges...
