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Religion and sociology. --- Religious life. --- Sociologie religieuse --- Vie religieuse --- religion --- religious expression --- religious performance --- religious rituals --- religion in late modernity --- theology --- values --- faith --- spirituality --- Music --- architecture --- festivals --- artefacts --- dance --- dress --- magic --- art --- culture

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'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators, authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate it from current trends.

Science fiction. --- Biotechnology in literature. --- Science fiction --- History and criticism. --- Science --- Science stories --- Fiction --- Future, The, in literature --- Literature --- Science Fiction --- Dystopia --- Genetic engineering --- Humanism --- Late modernity --- Posthuman --- Posthumanism --- Utopia --- genetic engineering in popular culture --- dystopian science fiction --- Liquid modernity --- biopunk --- science-fictionality

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The focus of this Special Issue is the analysis of the role played by sacrifice in complex secular and modern societies, in which, the concept of ‘emotional self-restriction' (Freud, 201; Elias, 2009), as a keystone of civilization, has collapsed. Today, the old idea of sacrifice is superseded by the idea of ‘useless sacrifice’ (Duvignaud, 1997), not because the logic of excess carried by sacrifice is opposite to the capitalistic idea of efficacy, but mainly because the contemporary actor is far away from any ideas of containment, restraint, or control. At the base of current civilizations, ‘instinctive sacrifice’ is not yet the rule. We could be closer to a new version of the ‘intellectual sacrifice’ (Weber, 2004). The weakening of the forces of transcendence (Reckwitz, 2012) in the secular age sets up spaces of ‘symbolic exchange’ (Baudrillard, 1980), which play the articulator role in our hyperfragmented society. In this context, the idea of compensatory loss remains present in current wars and migratory conflicts, in the economic life of unregulated capitalism, in the new imperative of corporal beauty, in global sports competitions, and so on. All of these are contexts, current contexts, where sacrifice plays a substantive role for understanding our age. In Merlin Donald’s terms of “evolutive evolution” (1991) and with the force that drives the dynamics of change through all societies, we understand that sacrifice performs a role in current societies, but a role in which its meaning as well as its function have already changed. The aim of this Special Issue is to analyze and explain what this role is, studying some of the different social faces that it presents. Our hypothesis is radically sociological, because we understand that different dynamics of change have exerted a transformative influence over sacrifice.

sacrifice --- gift --- victim --- post-heroic --- sacralization of the person --- pilgrimage --- sacred --- festivals --- Wagner --- Bayreuth --- Durkheim --- opera --- imaginary --- violence --- rituality --- collective communion --- late modernity --- martyrdom --- ETA --- Yoyes --- ethnography --- psychoanalysis --- cultural trauma --- victims of terrorism --- ritual --- performance --- expropriation --- crisis --- financialization --- capitalism --- sacredness of the person --- self-sacrifice --- exchange --- relinquishment --- secular religiosity --- n/a

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The spiritual crisis of the twenty-first century is overload boredom. There is more information, content, and stimulation than ever before, and none of it is waiting passively to be consumed. The demands exceed our capacities.The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom makes the case that withdrawal and resistance are not our only options: we can choose kēdia, an ethic of care. Rather than conceiving the world of information as external, Sharday Mosurinjohn turns to the sensational and emotional, focusing on the ways the digital age has radically reconfigured our interior lives. Using an innovative method of affective aesthetic speculation, Mosurinjohn engages the world of art, literature, and comedy for a series of unexpected case studies that make strange otherwise familiar scenes of overload boredom: texting, browsing social media, and performing information work. Ultimately, she shows that the opposite of boredom is not interest but meaning, and that we can only make it by curating the overload.The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom is a bold and original intervention for the present condition, unsettling the framing of existing work around technological modernity and its discontents.

Aesthetics. --- Arts. --- Boredom. --- Caring --- Meaning (Philosophy). --- Technology --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- David Foster Wallace. --- addiction. --- aesthetics. --- affect. --- akedia. --- algorithms. --- art history. --- care. --- choice. --- computers. --- conceptual art. --- connection. --- contemplation. --- contemporary culture. --- curation. --- dependence. --- digital banal. --- disaffect. --- distraction. --- entropy. --- ethics. --- everyday. --- existential despair. --- fiction. --- habit. --- information. --- interface. --- kedia. --- late modernity. --- literature. --- meaning. --- meditation. --- mental life. --- new media. --- noise. --- ontology. --- philosophy. --- psychic pain. --- ritual. --- screens. --- secularization. --- sensory overload. --- social media. --- speculative realism. --- spiritual crisis. --- subjectivity. --- technology. --- texting. --- time. --- withdrawal.

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""The World Is Our Classroom" explores parenting during the rise of "worldschooling.""--

Students --- Education --- Non-formal education. --- International education. --- Education and globalization. --- Travel. --- Parent participation. --- ADD/ADHD. --- Alternative Education. --- Alternative Mobility Futures. --- Autonomobility. --- Come-and-Go Sociality. --- Comfort Zone. --- Commodification. --- Commodified Community. --- Compassion. --- Creativity. --- Cultivated Independence. --- Cultural Capital. --- Digital Nomadism. --- Digital Nomads. --- Disruption. --- Educational Travel. --- Emotion Work. --- Emotion. --- Emotional Curriculum. --- Entitlement. --- Entrepreneurial Self. --- Entrepreneurialism. --- Ethics. --- Existential Mobility. --- Extreme Parenting. --- Family as Enterprise. --- Fear. --- Feeling Global. --- Free-Range Parenting. --- Future. --- Global Citizenship. --- Good Life. --- Good Mobile Life. --- Good Risk. --- Hackschooling. --- Helicopter Parenting. --- Homeschooling. --- Homesickness. --- Intensive Mothering. --- Late Modernity. --- Life Politics. --- Lifestyle Mobilities. --- Location-Independent Lifestyles. --- Mobile Commons. --- Mobile Community. --- Mobile Elite. --- Mobile Families. --- Mobile Lifestyles. --- Mobile Virtual Ethnography. --- Mobilities. --- Mobility Justice. --- Neoliberal Society. --- Neoliberalism. --- New Individualism. --- New Togetherness. --- Nomadic Friendship. --- Parenting Cultures. --- Precariat. --- Precarity. --- Privilege. --- Public Education. --- Risk Society. --- Social Inequalities. --- Teenagers. --- Twenty-First Century Skills. --- Uncertain Times. --- Unschooling. --- Volunteer Tourism. --- Worldschooling. --- Youth Mobilities.