Magic, science, religion:
"Magic, Science, Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among...
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill Rodopi
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Experimental practices
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Magic, Science, Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action"... |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 175 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789004357105 |
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About this Book XI
1 Introduction 1
1 All or Nothing? 1
2 Kindness 2
ASIDE: The Two-Million-DoIIar Comma 2
ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies 3
ASIDE: Our Gods 4
3 Cruelty 6
ASIDE: Ghostly Causality 7
ASIDE: Durable Cruelties 8
4 Beginning, Again 14
ASIDE: Chaos Invoked 14
5 The Freedom Not to Choose 15
ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes 16
ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion 17
ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer s Will 19
ASIDE: Shapely Sentences 21
ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version
2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell 25
1 Horror Movie Reboot 25
2 Interpositivity 25
ASIDE: Interpositivity 27
3 Becoming a System 27
4 Creatures of Light 29
ASIDE: Transformative for Whom? 30
ASIDE: Plant Sorcery 31
5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires 32
ASIDE: iii 33
ASIDE: Co-evolution 34
6 Leveled 35
ASIDE: On being bom too early and dying too late 36
ASIDE: Up Around the Bend 37
7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things 38
8 Dynamism 40
ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity 41
VIII
CONTENTS
9 Magic, but No Black Boxes 41
ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version 43
10 Wildness 43
ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory 44
3 Magic by Example 46
1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell) 46
2 Placebo Magic 50
ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic 52
ASIDE: Following the Scent 53
3 Mirror Magic 54
4 Biting Game 59
5 Dog Whisperer 61
6 Conclusion 62
4 Future Perfect 63
1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act 63
2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting 64
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston s Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer 65
3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines 69
ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church 69
ASIDE: Failing Off a Log 71
4 Magical Militarism 72
5 Four Asides 74
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston s Time Travel 101 74
ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence 76
ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence 77
ASIDE: Four Scholars 78
5 What is Religion? 82
1 A Fuzzy Set 82
2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve 83
3 Restoring the Chaos 84
4 Rain Dance 87
ASIDE: From Flow 89
5 Providence, via Vico 91
ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized 93
6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama) 97
1 Salience to Sentience 97
2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives 100
ASIDE: Law and Order 101
CONTENTS
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3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment 103
4 Use of the Terms I and We 104
5 Cis-Systems Trans-Systems 105
6 First Caveat: Characters 106
7 Plant and Animal Intelligence 107
8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective 108
9 Second Caveat: Plot 1x1
10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus
Neuropile 114
n The Holy Grail 120
ASIDE: Neuro-X 121
12 Teamlikeness 124
ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness 125
ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits 126
13 Conclusion 136
7 Blake Magic 138
1 Famous in Heaven 138
ASIDE: No Success Like Failure 139
2 Blake Magic 140
3 Auguries 143
ASIDE: Prophecies 145
4 Angel Kings 146
5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture 149
6 Five Asides 154
ASIDE: An Elegant Pose 157
ASIDE: Ritual Retraction 158
ASIDE: Obscurity 160
ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado 161
Acknowledgments 165
References 166
Index 173
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