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Cyber-Transcendence and Immanence as a Religio-Spiritual Phenomenon in Cyberpunk Anime

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dc.creatorFrey,Malte
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T14:06:49Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T14:06:49Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that Western cyberpunk narratives often suggest a technologically invoked transcendence, a cyber-transcendence, which represents a new ontolog-ical sphere and offers catharsis in dystopian scenarios. While Japanese cyberpunk anime also explore the idea of cyber-transcendence, the clear distinction between immanence and transcendence often becomes blurred. Aesthetic concepts invoking transcendence can be linked to the awe-inspiring kami (deities) of Japanese Shinto, which are intertwined with the immanent sphere of reality rather than external to it. In Western cyberpunk, cyber-transcendence seems to provide the sense of depth that Paul Tillich labels the “dimension of religion”, in contrast to postmodernist meaning-lessness. Cyberpunk anime provide an understanding of transcendence as a religious dimension that exists within realityen
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.9:2023.2.3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20123
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/342/312
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21346
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectCyber-Transcendenceen
dc.subjectImmanenceen
dc.subjectReligio-Spiritualen
dc.subjectPhenomenonen
dc.subjectCyberpunken
dc.subjectAnimeen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleCyber-Transcendence and Immanence as a Religio-Spiritual Phenomenon in Cyberpunk Animeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-11-29T00:34:11
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/342/312
local.source.epage66
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleHere Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
local.source.spage41
local.source.volume9

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