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This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and uncovering some of its particular effects on human existence, from prehistory until the contemporary age. Subversion is often romanticized as a means of opposing or undermining power in the name of supposedly universal values, yet techniques of subversion are actually deployed by people of all modern political and philosophical persuasions. With subversion having become a tool of mainstream ‘power’ that threatens to dominate social and political reality and so render the populace servile and subject to a generalized culture industry, Divinization and Technology examines the ways in which technology and divinization, with their efforts to unite with divine powers, can be brought together as modalities of subversion. ** Review "This volume connects three concepts – which in the first instance appear to be unrelated or even contradictory - as constitutive components of our modern existence: technology, divination and subversion. In fact, and as the authors show, technology has a lot to do with human attempts to attain divine power, which

Who reads Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion (Contemporary Liminality)?

Author

Ágnes Horváth; Camil Francisc Roman; Gilbert Gilles Germain

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351119597

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Sociology, Science