Father John, Technology, and God

Although insinuated into incredibly nuanced performances of everyday life, the ways in which we qualitatively ally with technology often continue to determine which of its potentialities will be realized. The following autoethnographic vignette takes to heart the Denzinian stylistic preferences don't tell and bury the theory, and the Actor-Network theory directive to produce a text that provides time rather than steals it, in terminology that the actors themselves would recognize, use, and understand. This work follows the actant of the wireless laptop to a hotel lobby in Japan, where ritual and habitual performances show the maintenance of nationalist performativity. A missionary in Tokyo voices the American dream of rock and roll fame, invoking questions about the role of technology in spirituality in the process. Finally, an understanding of morality as mundane, everyday performance is presented

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