All Outputs (6)

Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’ (2015)
Book Chapter
Gonzalez-Arnal, S. (2015). Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (107-127). Inter-Disciplinary Press

In this chapter I argue, against Mary Midgley, that the ‘yuk’ feeling that is elicited by chimeras should not be taken into account when making moral evaluations of the kind of biotechnology that creates them (‘algeny’, according to Midgley). She lin... Read More about Are chimeras ‘natural’? Disgust, ethics and ‘nature’.

Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics (2015)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. M. (2015). Rotoscoping uncanny bodies: Animation technology, animation aesthetics. In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (143-160). Inter-Disciplinary Press

Making Humans: Religious, Technological, and Aesthetic Perspectives (2015)
Book
Ornella, A. D. (Ed.). (2015). Making Humans: Religious, Technological, and Aesthetic Perspectives. Inter-Disciplinary Press

Of Imprints and Metaphors: The Construction of Stubburn Bodies in the Science Fiction Film Chrysalis (2015)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2015). Of Imprints and Metaphors: The Construction of Stubburn Bodies in the Science Fiction Film Chrysalis. In A. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological, and Aesthetic Perspectives (209-230). Inter-Disciplinary Press

Towards a ‘circuit of technological imaginaries’ A theoretical approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2015). Towards a ‘circuit of technological imaginaries’ A theoretical approach. In D. Pezzoli-Olgiati (Ed.), Religion in cultural imaginary - explorations in visual and material practices (9-38). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Commun(icat)ing Bodies: Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems (2015)
Book
Höpflinger, A.-K., Ornella, A. D., & Knauss, S. (Eds.). (2015). Commun(icat)ing Bodies: Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems. Theologischer Verlag

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion.

This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the bo... Read More about Commun(icat)ing Bodies: Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems.