Machines Making Gods
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Auteurs : James Burton [Royaume-Uni]Source :
- Theory, culture & society [ 0263-2764 ] ; 2008-12.
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- Agamben, Ancient rome, Androids dream, Badiou, Bergson, Black iron, Black iron prison, Bloch, Burton machines, Central role, Closure, Cosmic puppets, Creative evolution, Crucial point, Ction, Ction writer philip, Ctionalizing, Culture society, Darko suvin, Dick, Early christians, Electric sheep, Ernst bloch, Exegesis, Fabulation, Fabulations, Hardt, Henri bergson, High castle, Human history, Human life, Illusory reality, Impossibility, Incomprehensible nature, Iron cage, Last testament, Late work, Life forms, Mechanization, Mechanizing, Mechanizing principle, Messianic, Messianic klesis, Messianic tension, Messianic time, Messianic vocation, Milbank, Modern technology, Novel valis, Open morality, Open society, Open tendency, Original italics, Original possibility, Originary function, Other words, Palm tree garden, Phil dick, Political theology, Proper health, Religious route, Resurrection, Rhipidon society, Roman empire, Roman republic, Saint paul, Same time, Stanford university press, Subjectivity, Such conditions, Sutin, Taubes, Transcendent, Transcendent saviour, Untimely death, Vali, Vintage books, Visionary experiences.
Abstract
This article addresses shared themes in the writing of Saint Paul and the work of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Much recent philosophical interest in Saint Paul focuses on his contemporary significance as a radical political thinker, following Jacob Taubes' influential late work, The Political Theology of Paul. Assessments of Paul's writing in this context (e.g. by Agamben, Badiou, Milbank) highlight the various ways in which he uses fictionalizing, for example in setting up the tension between the present world and a messianic future, in the role he assigns to faith, and in the importance he assigns to the counter-factuality of resurrection. Yet the common thread of fictionalizing running through these themes has not been explicitly discussed. Meanwhile, the supposed `religious turn' in Dick's late writing has often been taken to have less political significance than his earlier science fiction. Considering Paul alongside Philip K. Dick, this article will attempt to bring out this central role of fictionalizing in the religious experiences of both. Like Paul, Dick experienced a visionary encounter with a God-like entity that shaped his interests and writing for the remainder of his life, and developed his own soteriology in response to what he perceived as the continued existence of (the Roman) Empire in modernity. Bringing out the mutual complementarity of Dick and Paul is facilitated by a framework derived from Henri Bergson's Two Sources of Religion, which theorizes the relation between mechanization as a human tendency characterizing both imperialism and industrialization, and fabulation as a human faculty for using fiction for the jointly immanent-transcendent purposes of survival/salvation. In this context, the diverse modes of fictionalizing employed by both Dick and Paul, including their unconsciously produced visions, may be understood as part of an ongoing, continually renewed strategy of revolutionary transformation of both self and world.
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