Beth Singler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 570694 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Beth Singler |
| NOMBRES | Beth |
| APELLIDO | Singler |
| FIRMA | SINGLER B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9471-0924 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ai Gods, Jeans Gods, and Thrift Gods
Abençoado Pelo Algoritmo
Meu primeiro voo de longa distância que não lotou e uma fileira de assentos vazia só para mim! Fui abençoado pelo algoritmo!". A frase "abençoado pelo algoritmo" expressa a sensação de sorte com o teor de seu feed em várias plataformas de mídia social, ou com a viralização daquele conteúdo que você criou, ou com aquela oportunidade incrível de renda extra (ou gig economy, no inglês) que surgiu. No entanto, também podemos situá-la no discurso públ…
Deuses Da Ia, Deuses Do Jeans E Deuses Da Economia
Spirit Tech
Religion and technology are constant companions who are often treated as strange bedfellows. Our perception of technology’s newness—the shiny chrome and bright twinkling lights of the “latest thing” that has caught our eye—often seems to stand in contrast to the deeply embedded “old” traditions we commonly understand as religion or spirituality, even though there is a long history of religious uses of technology, from the obvious, such as the pri…
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
“Blessed by the algorithm”
“My first long haul flight that didn’t fill up and an empty row for me. I have been blessed by the algorithm ”. The phrase ‘blessed by the algorithm’ expresses the feeling of having been fortunate in what appears on your feed on various social media platforms, or in the success or virality of your content as a creator, or in what gig economy jobs you are offered. However, we can also place it within wider public discourse employing theistic conce…
The AI Creation Meme
Through a consideration of examples of the AI Creation Meme, a remix of Michelangelo's Creazione di Adamo featuring a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching, fingertip to fingertip, this article will tackle the religious continuities and resonances that still emerge in AI discourse in an allegedly 'secular age'. The AI Creation Meme, as a highly visible cultural artefact appearing in a variety of forms and locations, will be analyzed and d…
Roko’s Basilisk or Pascal’s? Thinking of Singularity Thought Experiments as Implicit Religion
In 2010 a thought experiment speculating on the motivations and aims of a potential superintelligent Artificial Intelligence, sometimes known as the ‘Singularity’, caused uproar and anxiety on the forum board where it was initially posted. This paper considers that thought experiment’s debt to older forms of religious argument, the reactions from among the community, and how expectations about the Singularity as a being with agency can be conside…
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Religion For the Religious Studies Scholar
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Implicit Religion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and religion will explore the some initial but important reasons why the interplay between these two fields should be of interest to the religious studies scholar. After introducing AI as well as elements of its cultural history and narratives, this article will lay out three arguments for researching AI and religion. First, that the potenti…
Big Bad Pharma
Academic interest in the New Age movement has focused primarily on the emic narratives of hope and utopianism that the term “New Age” appears to exemplify. A particular example is the concept of the Indigo Children, described as an intuitive, spiritual generation appearing since the late 1970s to usher in a golden age. In this article I argue that the perceived uniqueness of the Indigo Child and the concept’s demedicalization of problems such as …
“See Mom It Is Real”
Lewis (2003) identifies three strategies of legitimation used by New Religions: rationality-tradition-charisma. Using the case of Jediism and the uk Censuses of 2001 and 2011, this article refutes the argument that the invented-ness, or self-conscious creation, of some New Religious Movements prevents their strategic reference to tradition for legitimation. Instead, this article explores a more contemporary understanding of tradition that takes i…
The AI Creation Meme
Through a consideration of examples of the AI Creation Meme, a remix of Michelangelo's Creazione di Adamo featuring a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching, fingertip to fingertip, this article will tackle the religious continuities and resonances that still emerge in AI discourse in an allegedly 'secular age'. The AI Creation Meme, as a highly visible cultural artefact appearing in a variety of forms and locations, will be analyzed and d…
“See Mom It Is Real”
Lewis (2003) identifies three strategies of legitimation used by New Religions: rationality-tradition-charisma. Using the case of Jediism and the uk Censuses of 2001 and 2011, this article refutes the argument that the invented-ness, or self-conscious creation, of some New Religious Movements prevents their strategic reference to tradition for legitimation. Instead, this article explores a more contemporary understanding of tradition that takes i…
Big Bad Pharma
Academic interest in the New Age movement has focused primarily on the emic narratives of hope and utopianism that the term “New Age” appears to exemplify. A particular example is the concept of the Indigo Children, described as an intuitive, spiritual generation appearing since the late 1970s to usher in a golden age. In this article I argue that the perceived uniqueness of the Indigo Child and the concept’s demedicalization of problems such as …
Roko’s Basilisk or Pascal’s? Thinking of Singularity Thought Experiments as Implicit Religion
In 2010 a thought experiment speculating on the motivations and aims of a potential superintelligent Artificial Intelligence, sometimes known as the ‘Singularity’, caused uproar and anxiety on the forum board where it was initially posted. This paper considers that thought experiment’s debt to older forms of religious argument, the reactions from among the community, and how expectations about the Singularity as a being with agency can be conside…
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Religion For the Religious Studies Scholar
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Implicit Religion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and religion will explore the some initial but important reasons why the interplay between these two fields should be of interest to the religious studies scholar. After introducing AI as well as elements of its cultural history and narratives, this article will lay out three arguments for researching AI and religion. First, that the potenti…
“Blessed by the algorithm”
“My first long haul flight that didn’t fill up and an empty row for me. I have been blessed by the algorithm ”. The phrase ‘blessed by the algorithm’ expresses the feeling of having been fortunate in what appears on your feed on various social media platforms, or in the success or virality of your content as a creator, or in what gig economy jobs you are offered. However, we can also place it within wider public discourse employing theistic conce…
The AI Creation Meme
Through a consideration of examples of the AI Creation Meme, a remix of Michelangelo's Creazione di Adamo featuring a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching, fingertip to fingertip, this article will tackle the religious continuities and resonances that still emerge in AI discourse in an allegedly 'secular age'. The AI Creation Meme, as a highly visible cultural artefact appearing in a variety of forms and locations, will be analyzed and d…
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
Spirit Tech
Religion and technology are constant companions who are often treated as strange bedfellows. Our perception of technology’s newness—the shiny chrome and bright twinkling lights of the “latest thing” that has caught our eye—often seems to stand in contrast to the deeply embedded “old” traditions we commonly understand as religion or spirituality, even though there is a long history of religious uses of technology, from the obvious, such as the pri…
Ai Gods, Jeans Gods, and Thrift Gods
Abençoado Pelo Algoritmo
Meu primeiro voo de longa distância que não lotou e uma fileira de assentos vazia só para mim! Fui abençoado pelo algoritmo!". A frase "abençoado pelo algoritmo" expressa a sensação de sorte com o teor de seu feed em várias plataformas de mídia social, ou com a viralização daquele conteúdo que você criou, ou com aquela oportunidade incrível de renda extra (ou gig economy, no inglês) que surgiu. No entanto, também podemos situá-la no discurso públ…
Deuses Da Ia, Deuses Do Jeans E Deuses Da Economia
Sociology (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (5 obras) · Narrative (5 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras)