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In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.

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Author:   Dr. Scott A. Midson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.466kg
ISBN:  

9781784537876

ISBN 10:   178453787
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Why Cyborgs and Theology? Technologies and theologies What is a cyborg? Engaging theology with the cyborg Theoretical foundations: (Hi)stories PART I 1. Imago Dei: Anthropogeny & Theological Anthropology What does it mean to be 'human'? Theological models of the human Substantive interpretations: Essentially human? Functional models: Performing the human? Relational models: Assembling the human? Beyond relational models: Critiquing the human? 2. Nature & Human Nature Nature, humans, technology Nature and otherness: Eden Nature and humanness (1): Imago dei Nature and humanness (2): Freedom and Fall Nature-as-essence: Substantive interpretations 3. Posthumanism: The End(s) of the Human? Pluralising the posthuman Expansions of the human: Transhumans Limits of the human: Evolutionary posthumans Querying the human: Critical post/humans Alternative articulations of the human: Cyborgs PART II 4. Cybernetics and Organisms: Fusions Systems and cyborgs Astronautic cyborgs 'Healthy' cyborgs SF cyborgs 5. Figurative Cyborgs: Confusions Non-teleological cyborgs We, cyborgs Natural-born cyborgs Post-cyborgs? PART III 6. Creation, Creatures and Creativity Creative cyborgs and created co-creators Imago dei and creativity Cyborgs, god(s), and goddesses 7. Eden: Return or Refigure? Ruptures: Eden/cyborgs Continuities: Eden-cyborgs Implosions: Cyborgs in the garden Articulations: Return to Eden? viii Cyborg Theology CONCLUSION Doing Difference Differently: Towards a Cyborg Theology Cyborgisation Fabulation Implosion

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Scott A Midson is Samuel Ferguson Research Assistant in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, where he obtained his PhD in 2012. Specializing in religion and technology and religion and new media, he is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology, where he delivered a paper in 2016 on the topic of 'Black Mirrors.' Cyborg Theology is his first book.

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