Cyborg and Religious? Technonature and Technoculture
Cyborg and Religious? Technonature and Technoculture
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We are all aware that our idea of natural/unnatural has been changing over the centuries.According to Donna Haraway, we must exit the maze of olea europaea montra dualisms that has marred the relationships between human and non-human nature for centuries.Cyborg is a figure of speech and asymbol, but preeminently a description of our actual being in contemporary technonature.Her idea has been picked up by artists (e.g.
Lynn Randolph, Patricia Piccinini) and philosophers and theologians.The cyborgian organism/human and the read more world cannot be articulated in terms of black-and-white, us and them, friend and foe, kin and alien, good and evil etc.Our technonatural creatures require our care and love, curiosity and investigation, and there will always be unexpected consequences.