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Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion

Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Liminality

EconomicsAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0815359888
ISBN13: 9780815359883
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2018
Pages: 198
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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