Religion and Posthuman Life: A Note on Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision

Delio, Ilia

doi:10.3138/tjt-2020-0051

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“…The research conceptually interconnects all three businesses to allow consumers to experience a new level of their own being and desires as “posthuman mystic” (Bolger, 2021) with empathic advertising and adequate existing and future NT. As such, the digital/technological connection between consumers and their dreaming tourism destinations, including sceneries, people and objects, construct a “decentered, highly relational mode of reality giving agency to everyone, not only to all other humans, but to natural and technological subjects as well” (Delio, 2020, p. 115). Such a digital/virtual world, with an example like the Metaverse, is “a combination of contextualization and whole making from the standpoint of posthumanism and mysticism” (Bolger, 2021, p. 768).…”

Section: Part II Literature Analysis and Conceptual Propositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resonating with the consumer desires behind the screen – consumer-centric tourism advertising and new technology applications

Chen

2023

JBIM

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to conceptually integrate business to consumer (B2C) into business to business (B2B), with a holistic consumer-centric, technology-reinforced, long-term vision for tourism industries and companies to survive and succeed in the era of new technologies 4.0. The research suggests that the tourism-marketing-new technologies decision-making involves customers as the center of the design and decision process. Design/methodology/approach The research design includes a qualitative study with 94 in-depth interviews, a literature analysis and a conceptual proposition. The qualitative study follows the tourism consumer desire data analysis, from categorization to integration. The literature analysis applies a systematic literature review approach based on the 29 most up-to-date new-tech papers from peer-reviewed journals. The analysis compares qualitative research findings and literature analysis results and matches the new technology applications with consumer desire understanding. The conceptual framework of tourism marketing/advertising is proposed based on qualitative research and literature analysis. Findings The qualitative research deciphers that consumers, based on their imagination and memorization, desire therapy and sceneries and connect such desires to the empathetic and resonating advertising messages. The literature analysis synthesizes the new tech applications in tourism and matches the qualitative research findings with the deciphered desires in tourism. The conceptual model proposes that B2C should be integrated into B2B to provide value for both consumers and businesses and opens avenues of research on this topic. Research limitations/implications This research has made the following theoretical contributions: it offers an in-depth understanding of consumer desire, often hidden or subconscious, in the field of tourism. Consumer desires regarding tourism are mostly subconscious and exist long before consumers are exposed to advertising messages. These desires reflect the search for therapy and sceneries and become “embodied” – they exist on multisensorial levels and become part of the body and life and will lead consumers into positive perceptions when marketing communications/advertisements resonate with them. In the latter case, they will subjectively judge advertising as “good,” regardless of the advertising design quality. The research also connects consumer research with a new technologies research review and proposes a conceptual framework to integrate business to consumer (B2C) with business to business (B2B). As such, the research makes theoretical contributions to the integration or the “boundary blurring” between B2C and B2B research and practical suggestions that involved industries and consumers may all benefit from such integration. Conceptually, there is a lack of discussions of the pitfalls of new technologies, a dearth of empirical verification of the applications of new technologies in the proposed fields and a shortage of discussions about ethical issues. Qualitative methods, offering an efficient tool for understanding consumer desires in the tourism industry, have their own limits, as discussed in previous research. The sample is limited to the state of New York population and may be influenced by geographic, demographic and psychological characteristics related to the region. Practical implications This research provides advertising practitioners, new technology innovators and tourism industries with a framework to face the combined challenges of understanding hidden consumer desires and applying adequate technologies that resonate with consumer desires to tackle relevant issues. The conceptual proposition of this research fills the gap between qualitative consumer research without concrete practical resolution and new technologies applications without in-depth consumer understanding. Through the conceptual framework, the author provides insights into how industries may benefit from consumer understanding. The business relationships among the industries of marketing, tourism and new technologies should be centered around consumers. Thus, B2C and B2B should be naturally integrated into business practices. Social implications Social implications of this research include three major points: first, the understanding of consumer desire for therapeutic power in tourism, which invites more attention to tourism as part of social well-being design instead of a purely for-profit business. Second, a profound comprehension of what consumers need and desire, without which the applications of new technologies may cause severe societal problems. Third, a way to tailor to consumers’ individuality and desires for advertising/marketing that may be considered abusive, stressful and socially destructive if applied in a nonpersonal manner. Originality/value Conceptually, this research adds consumer desire, an originally B2C concept, to the B2B context regarding the new technology applications in tourism marketing/advertising. It contributes to the B2B literature by proposing a strong consumer-centric approach, especially the consumer desire understanding, that is not yet investigated in the B2B literature; and a combination of empirical study and literature analysis and the matching of the two for better practice of advertising/marketing, tourism and new technologies applications.

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Section: Part II Literature Analysis and Conceptual Propositionmentioning

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Resonating with the consumer desires behind the screen – consumer-centric tourism advertising and new technology applications

Chen

2023

JBIM

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“…The Christian vision of transcendence, including its legacy of technological transcendence, produced the cultural, philosophical, and religious movements of transhumanism out of the confluence of global interactions, secularization, and the increasing power (both political and practical) of science and technology. Nikolai Fedorov and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are clear examples of Christian thinkers with significant impact on transhumanist perceptions of technology (see Teilhard de Chardin [1955] 1959; Steinhart 2008; Burdett 2011; Young 2012; Delio 2020). Meanwhile, Haldane (1924) and Huxley ([1927] 1957; 1957) articulated the basic vision of what would become transhumanism—both positioning themselves as atheist (or at least agnostic) but the latter describing human evolution as a specifically religious enterprise and coining the term “transhumanism” (Huxley 1955; 1957, 17, 287–302).…”

Section: The Progression Of Transhumanist Thinkingmentioning

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Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology

Song¹,

Geraci²

2022

Zygon

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The visibility of transhumanism in pop culture reveals its dramatic advance in twenty-first-century life. The more widespread the movement becomes, the more important it is to consider how transhumanism might be made relevant to global humanity. This article orients technological progress by drawing transhumanism into conversation with minjung theology from Korea. Minjung theology offers global tech culture-and its pursuit of technological salvation-an ethical foundation through attention to Han (an emotion specific to those who suffer from individual, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural oppression but have been unable to express it adequately) and the lived reality of those who are often excluded from benefits of technological society. Working in the other direction, transhumanist perspectives on technology offer minjung theology an opportunity to expand its reach through the development of a transcendent theological perspective.

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“…What is their role in social service, the nature of state-church relations? A number of scientists believe that it is important in this system to give priority to God (Kaunda, 2020;Delio, 2020), to distribute the roles in the new paradigm between the religious figure properly, the state, and the "robot-monk" (Singler, 2020b;Tan, 2020). Indeed, digitalization and AI can act both as a helper and as an enemy of man (Burrell, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Innovations in social service (education) in state-church relations in the conditions of digitalization of society and pandemic

al.¹

2022

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The purpose of the study was to identify innovative approaches to activities in the system of state-church relations in social service (education) within the framework of interaction between an Orthodox Monastery and the Russian State Social University. The interaction between St. Nicholas Chernoostrovsky Convent and Russian State Social University (RSCU) has developed from conceptual foundations to the formation of a training system for Orthodox media. This article is the first to identify innovations: implementation of a modular, continuous model for the development of orphans in modern society, combining the efforts of secular and spiritual education; unification of philosophy and worldview, both religious and cultural, in the context of the digitalization of society and pandemic restrictions; formation of a multi-vector model of education with simultaneous development in several professional (church) directions and (or) an increase in social significance; use of hybrid forms of preparation and conduct of classes in a secular and church educational environment. The strong point of the article is a systematic approach to the study of the problem and the identified innovations, which make it possible to improve social service in the context of the digitalization of society and the COVID 19 pandemic. The use of the results obtained by other researchers can serve to develop the system of state-church relations in social service (education) of different faiths.

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Religion and Posthuman Life: A Note on Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision

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Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Resonating with the consumer desires behind the screen – consumer-centric tourism advertising and new technology applications

Resonating with the consumer desires behind the screen – consumer-centric tourism advertising and new technology applications

Marginalization and Transcendence in Transhumanism and Minjung Theology

Innovations in social service (education) in state-church relations in the conditions of digitalization of society and pandemic

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