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“Esprit californien, es-tu là?” The New-Age roots of digital society

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: Études digitales
    2018 – 1, n° 5
    . Religiosité technologique
  • Author: Rappin (Baptiste)
  • Abstract: Does digital society represent the triumph of the disenchantment of the world, that is to say, the fulfilment of the modern project that breaks with dogma and superstition? The article opposes this view and establishes that technology and religion have always been closely linked in the course of Western and Christian history and that digital society has its roots in cybernetics and the New Age, both of which promote a cult of immateriality.
  • Pages: 87 to 103
  • Journal: Digital Studies
  • CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication
  • EAN: 9782406092902
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-09290-2
  • ISSN: 2497-1650
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09290-2.p.0087
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 08-13-2019
  • Periodicity: Biannual
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Digital society, technology, religion, cybernetics, immateriality