Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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Interesting post on the teaching/researching tension: What Now?: Teaching release and release from teaching This year I’ve ramped the teaching down so I can finish the thesis by the end of the year so it was interesting to see this perspective. Via Maggi Dawn.
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From the technology section of Adbusters The Big Ideas 2005 comes the article Adbusters : Make peace with your biology. Lots of interesting quotes like, What do you lose when your life becomes more valuable than any other life in history? When your death is something you can’t accept? When pain makes you cower in…
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Picked up a flyer yesterday for Creation, Crisis and Conservation : A Christian response to a suffering planet, a conference here in Auckland in two weeks time (18-20 Feb). I probably won’t be able to go to it but here’s the link if you want to find out more. www.creationcare.org.nz The web site isn’t great…
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Finished the Virtual Theology paper finally. Definitely a start toward something larger (a thesis chapter?) and a weaving together of some strands of my research. Had a large section (1500-2000 words) on the role of science-religion models of interaction in technology-theology engagement. It went into the paper, was removed, went back in and then was…
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William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer gave data and information a 3-D structure within cyberspace. Information became the landscape. It’s a little bit how I’m feeling at the moment as I stuggle to put my Virtual Theology paper to bed. I have a beginning and I know where I want to end but the middle feels like…
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Came across this article today as part of my pulling stuff together for my “Hacking as Theology” paper I’m working on at the moment. Sociology of Religion: May the Force of the Operating System be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion (From Sociology of Religion, Summer, 2001 by Pui-Yan Lam) As practice, identity, and…
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If you’re looking to investigate the relationships between science and religion in general you’d be hard pressed to go past the book God for the 21st Century. The library managed to interloan me a copy from the Christchurch public library so I’ve been skimming through it. It’s a collection of 50 short opinion pieces and…
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From the Visual Explorations section of Metanexus is a movie entitled “Motion” with a series of images of nature in motion in Iceland. Part of their ongoing series based on art being a bridge between science and religion. The comment that “beautiful images from the sciences can also transform our vision of ourselves and the…
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Read this paper today while working on my own for the Virtual Theology colloquium. Some interesting ideas on techno-culture becoming a third strand in Western civilization to stand with science and the arts. Thinking about how religion, especially Christianity, fits in here. Venn diagrams are beginning to come to mind. Is religion a set on…
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Wired News: Real World Doesn’t Use a Joystick Kozy Kitchens’ experience with having a difficult time separating her real-life consciousness from that of her game playing is all too common among hard-core gamers. It’s so common, in fact, that game publishers might want to consider warning their customers that they may soon be unable to…