"Disembedded" Buddhism in a Techno-Global Cosmology: The Case of Spike Jonze’s Film Her (2013)
This essay explores the subtle but key influence of Buddhist ideas in Spike Jonze’s highly successful 2013 film Her, which reflects the currents of disembedded Buddhism woven through ostensibly non-Buddhist cultural spaces and texts, engaging with contemporary social concerns. In Her they manifest m...
| Published in: | Journal of global buddhism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of global buddhism
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Her (Film)
/ Artificial intelligence
/ Buddhism
/ World view
/ Transcendence
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion BL Buddhism NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Buddhist Modernism
B Her B Spike Jonze B Buddhist cosmologies B Artificial Intelligence B Alan Watts |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the subtle but key influence of Buddhist ideas in Spike Jonze’s highly successful 2013 film Her, which reflects the currents of disembedded Buddhism woven through ostensibly non-Buddhist cultural spaces and texts, engaging with contemporary social concerns. In Her they manifest most surprisingly in the character of Samantha, an artificially-intelligent consciousness that transcends the limitations of ego-based thought. Like the Buddha, Samantha has capacities that extend beyond the reach of ordinary humans, and by imagining these extraordinary powers of thought we are provided a glimpse of an absolute reality beyond our experience of the everyday. In this sense Her’s techno-global cosmology parallels miraculous aspects of the Buddha that are embedded in premodern cosmologies. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.1993 |