Incarnating the Unknown: Planetary Technologies for a Planetary Community
This article suggests that current technological development is based upon outdated ways of understanding human beings as exceptional to the rest of the natural world. As such, these technologies help serve to reify certain human lives at the expense of others. I argue that such exceptionalism dep...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2017]
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
new materialisms
B Planetarity B earth ethics B wicked problems |
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| Summary: | This article suggests that current technological development is based upon outdated ways of understanding human beings as exceptional to the rest of the natural world. As such, these technologies help serve to reify certain human lives at the expense of others. I argue that such exceptionalism depends upon an understanding of transcendence that is totally other. Using examples such as Earthrise and the UN's International Treaty on Outer Space, I argue that an immanent understanding of the other renegotiates how we understand our embeddedness within the rest of the evolving planetary community. As part of renegotiating a planetary anthropology, we must also begin rethinking technologies as for the planet (not just for humans). |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel8040065 |