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<p>This paper presents and examines two hypothetical case studies picturing a near future where digital machines have transcended their merely instrumental constitution and participate in performances having religious resemblances. The paper Illustrate how and why a) certain shared activities between humans and ‘machines’ can be understood as ‘religious’ by following Fontanille’s Forms of Life and Wittgenstein’s nonessentialist approach to language; b) animism is the ontology that best describes such intimate and ‘nonutilitarian’ interrelations with digital forms of existence; c) in religious experiences with computational-based entities the type of discourse prevailing the most corresponds to the category of poetic language. In conclusion, both hypothetical scenarios strive to illuminate how the unfolding of poetic and animistic interactions with the computational medium provide experiences that can be ascribed to the notion of religion and, more importantly, how we are already moving towards such intimate religious entanglements with the digital context.</p>
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This paper presents and examines two hypothetical case studies picturing a near future where digital machines have transcended their merely instrumental constitution and participate in performances having religious resemblances. The paper Illustrate how and why a) certain shared activities between humans and ‘machines’ can be understood as ‘religious’ by following Fontanille’s Forms of Life and Wittgenstein’s nonessentialist approach to language; b) animism is the ontology that best describes such intimate and ‘nonutilitarian’ interrelations with digital forms of existence; c) in religious experiences with computational-based entities the type of discourse prevailing the most corresponds to the category of poetic language. In conclusion, both hypothetical scenarios strive to illuminate how the unfolding of poetic and animistic interactions with the computational medium provide experiences that can be ascribed to the notion of religion and, more importantly, how we are already moving towards such intimate religious entanglements with the digital context.

The animated machine: possible poetic intersections between religion and computational-based entities

victoriavanessa.dossantosbustamante@unito.it

Linguistic Frontiers

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This paper presents and examines two hypothetical case studies picturing a near future where digital machines have transcended their merely instrumental...

The animated machine: possible poetic intersections between religion and computational-based entities

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 80 - 86

Otrzymano: 01 lip 2022

Przyjęty: 01 lis 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0023

Słowa kluczowe
Animism, digital religion, poetic language, digital avatar, human-computer interaction

© 2022 Victoria Dos Santos, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The animated machine: possible poetic intersections between religion and computational-based entities

Data publikacji: 30 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 80 - 86

Otrzymano: 01 lip 2022

Przyjęty: 01 lis 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0023

Słowa kluczoweAnimism, digital religion, poetic language, digital avatar, human-computer interaction

© 2022 Victoria Dos Santos, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
Animism, digital religion, poetic language, digital avatar, human-computer interaction