분류  논문

학술지구분  등재후보

논문제목  종교와 미디어 테크놀로지-마음의 물질적 조건에 관한 시론

저자  이창익

저자수  1

학술지명  종교문화연구 제 17호

발행처  한신대학교 종교와문화연구소

게재일  2011.12.21

종교와 미디어 테크놀로 -마음의 물질적 조건에 관한 시론-

이창익(원광대학교 마음인문학연구소 HK연구교수)

Religion and Media Technology:  An Essay on the Materiality of Mind

Abstract

  We live in the world where smartphones are gradually unifying such diverse media technologies as telephone, computer, camera, television, radio, voice recorder and camcorder. Smartphone is a result of computerized communications assemblage, which is made possible by digitalization of all the informations of different kinds. According to Friedrich A. Kittler, before the twentieth century, written texts provided the central archive for the storage of all cultural data. At that time, language produced an individual with its own mind (or soul) being invoked through reading. And literature was the only media technology for storing both optical and acoustic informations as well as linguistic ones. But around 1900, with the invention of film, phonograph and typewriter, writing became merely one medium among others. Respectively film and phonograph separated image and sound from language, and typewriter stored language devoid of image and sound.
This resulted in a complete divorce of body and soul in human beings. Religion has something to do with contemporary media technologies. For religion is an information system which stores and transmits sensuous data regarded as sacred. Here we will have an opportunity to think about historical relations of religion and media technology.

Key words: Friedrich A. Kittler, film, phonograph, typewriter, soul, mind