{"id":213,"date":"2010-09-20T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WProclamatio\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-06-03T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:29:25","slug":"techgnose-mytus-magie-mysticismus-v-informacnim-veku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horus.cz\/WProclamatio\/techgnose-mytus-magie-mysticismus-v-informacnim-veku\/","title":{"rendered":"TechGnose: M\u00fdtus, magie & mysticismus v informa\u010dn\u00edm v\u011bku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik Davis:\u00a0TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Propast mezi technologickou mentalitou a mystick\u00fdm pohledem nemus\u00ed b\u00fdt tak velik\u00fd, jak se zd\u00e1 b\u00fdt. Erik Davis<\/a> se d\u00edv\u00e1 na modern\u00ed informa\u010dn\u00ed technologii – a hodn\u011b na p\u0159edchoz\u00ed technologii – aby odhalil, kolik z n\u00ed m\u00e1 sv\u00e9 ko\u0159eny v spiritu\u00e1ln\u00edch postoj\u00edch. Nadto zkoum\u00e1, jak ti, kdo\u017e v\u00edtaj\u00ed s otev\u0159enou n\u00e1ru\u010d\u00ed ka\u017ed\u00fd nov\u00fd technologick\u00fd pokrok, \u010din\u00ed tak \u010dasto na podklad\u011b vzor\u016f a o\u010dek\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00ed vyr\u016fstaj\u00edc\u00edch z religi\u00f3zn\u00ed senzibility. P\u0159itom Davis porovn\u00e1v\u00e1 i d\u00e1v\u00e1 do kontrastu v\u011bdeck\u00fd postoj, \u017ee m\u016f\u017eeme poznat realitu technologicky a gnostickou ideu kone\u010dn\u00e9ho pozn\u00e1n\u00ed. A\u010dkoliv je v\u0161e vm\u011bstn\u00e1no do pochopiteln\u00fdch kapitol, je tu i prvek siln\u00e9ho proudu v\u011bdom\u00ed vlastn\u00edho Davisovu d\u00edlu. Jeho v\u00fdklady se mohou lehce nap\u0159. rozb\u011bhnout od informa\u010dn\u00ed teorie a\u017e k mlhovit\u00e9 povaze gnosticismu a filosofick\u00e9mu probl\u00e9mu zla, a to na p\u00e1r str\u00e1nk\u00e1ch. Je to, jakoby tu existovalo tolik spojitost\u00ed, \u017ee Davis\u016fv text za\u010dne prob\u00edhat zp\u011bt a dop\u0159edu nap\u0159\u00ed\u010d \u010dasem a prostorem bez ohledu na \u0159\u00e1dky. Jenom\u017ee v\u00fdsledek nen\u00ed chaotick\u00fd, jak by se dalo o\u010dek\u00e1vat, n\u00fdbr\u017e je v \u017eiv\u00e9 souh\u0159e s velkou \u0161\u00ed\u0159\u00ed idej\u00ed. Jeho styl je pr\u00e1v\u011b tak \u017eivorod\u00fd, jako\u017e i v\u0161eobecn\u011b obj\u00edmaj\u00edc\u00ed – i kdy\u017e n\u011bkdy zabrous\u00ed do spl\u00ednu. Venkoncem usp\u011bl ve snaze uk\u00e1zat, \u017ee spiritu\u00e1ln\u00ed str\u00e1nku toho, co n\u011bkte\u0159\u00ed mohou vn\u00edmat jako studen\u00e9 technologick\u00e9 my\u0161len\u00ed.<\/p>\n

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Erik Davis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the new millennium, will we drop our messy bodies and upload our minds and souls into tidy android containers? Why not, argues Davis, a Wired contributor whose hip, erudite first book argues for the survival of a kind of gnostic mysticism in the age of information technology, carried over from the specifically Christian movement of late antiquity. Davis marshals an impressive, even exhausting, amount of evidence from Eastern and Western literature, history, philosophy, scripture and popular culture to support his sometimes opaque position on the matter of technology’s impact on human spirituality and vice versa. In wave after wave of hybrid vocabulary („mythinformation,“ „netaphysician,“ „cyberdelia,“ etc.), he offers a dizzying implosion of simulated hypertext, leaping from an authentic Gnostic poem to a ’60s rock concert to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook to the latest cultic catastrophe. This deluge of information and theory manages to be quite entertaining („Already in Homer, Hermes is a multitasking character“), but, ultimately, readers may be unsure whether to applaud Davis’s conclusion that the phallic vector of technological development has been supplanted by a womblike matrix. But it’s not always the destination that matters, and readers who hang on will find that surfing Davis’s datastream makes for an exhilarating ride.
\n– Publishers Weekly<\/em>
\n<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paperback: 372 pages
\nPublisher: Five Star (March 1, 2005)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-13: 978-1852427726<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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