Format:
1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9780567689979
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9780567689955
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9780567689948
Content:
"This volume explores love in the context of today's technologies. It is difficult to separate love from romanticist ideals of authenticity, intimacy and depth of relationship. These ideals resonate with theological models of love that highlight the way God benevolently created the world and continues to love it. Technologies, which are designed in response to our desires, do not necessarily enjoy this romanticist resonance, and yet they are now remodelling the world. Are technologies then antithetical to love? In this volume, leading theologians have brought together themes of theology, technology and love for the first time, exploring different areas where notions of love and technology are problematized. In a world where algorithms and artificial intelligences interact with us and shape our lives in ever more intricate and even intimate ways, we might feel attachments to and through machines that suggest sentiments of love while also changing how we think about love. Does love always have to be reciprocal? How can we enact love and care for others with technologies? Whose desires do technologies serve - consumers, corporations, creatures? This volume offers a systematic review of the challenges of living in a technologically saturated world, by means of critical application of, as well as reflection on, theological discussions about love."--
Content:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Technoculture and Technophilia / Scott Midson (University of Manchester, UK) Part I: Love and (Non)humans -- 2. Rethinking Love in the Anthropocene: The Work of Love towards Nature in the Age of its Technological Substitutability / Peter Manley Scott (University of Manchester, UK) -- 3. Affective Affiliations: Animals, Humans, and their Tools in Deep Time / Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Notre Dame, USA) -- 4. Loving Robots? Let Yet Another Stranger In / Anne Foerst (St. Bonaventure University, USA) Part II: Love and Bodies 5. Desiring Machines: The Sexbot Paradox / Robert Song (Durham University, UK) -- 6. The Robot Will See You Now: Reflections on Technologies in Healthcare / Amy Michelle DeBaets (Oakland University, USA) -- 7. Loving Better (People)? : Moral Bioenhancement and Christian Moral Transformation / Ron Cole-Turner (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, USA) -- Part III: Love and Societies -- 8. Can Technologies Promote Overall Wellbeing? Questions about Love for Machine-Oriented Societies / Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University, USA) -- 9. From Imago Dei to Social Media: Computers, Companions, and Communities / Scott Midson (University of Manchester, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780567689979
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