Call for Papers: "The Village and the Technological Age"
- USCCA Digital Communications Coordinator
- Jun 1
- 2 min read
Lumen Orientis, a new magazine focused on Chinese Catholic culture, has released a Call For Papers on the topic of "The Village and the Technological Age."
This topic is explored in more detail in the following passage:
As children of modernity, who we are has been fundamentally shaped by technology, no matter how much or how little we choose to interact with it. Nevertheless, we have also been formed by people and their relationships whether those relationships take the form of a family, village, city, or other institution. A comparison between the relatively close-knit community life of the village and the vastness of the technological era merits much consideration, including, but certainly not limited to these possibilities: how we view instrumentality in the life of the village and in the technological era; artifice vs. the organic, natural, or human; how modern technology and the life of the village might alter how we perceive man's purpose; and what the right relation of man is to the village or community and to technology. We invite contributors to reflect on these and many other questions through historical, theological, or philosophical essays, as well as through interviews, personal reflections, commentaries, art, photography, poetry, and literature.
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