Abstract
Expanding our description of liturgy as an organisation of technics structuring desire, we describe the accompanying myth as a technic of knowing. Drawing on transdisciplinary theology, developed from the work of Wentzel van Huyssteen, Paul Cilliers and Alfonso Montuori, we engage the cross-disciplinary construction of scientific myth by Big Historians. We argue that myth, as a transversal technic of knowing, is abundant in many spheres of our lives and bridges what Bernard Stiegler calls the persistent minimal gap between humanity and technics. Can Big Historians offer such a bridge and what does it mean when scientists use technicities developed by religious practitioners?
Highlights
In an earlier article, we postulated liturgy as not in the first place a structuring of desire but rather a structuring of technics
In turn, elicits desire into a consistency for care in the pharmakon created by technics
As we explore modern myths here, our aim is cultivating an awareness and evaluation of the developing myth of Big History as a technic of knowing with the hope that more care might be elicited from myth as a technic
Summary
We postulated liturgy as not in the first place a structuring of desire but rather a structuring of technics. Such alignment, in turn, elicits desire into a consistency for care in the pharmakon created by technics. Refers to tertiary, externalised memory on which humans draw to construct selves. The essay ended by citing Victor Hugo’s (2011:137) aphorism from Notre dame de paris: ‘Ceci tuera cela. Le livre tuera l’édifice [This will kill that. Today Christian liturgy faces a challenge of there and back again – the textual usurped the visual just, so the latter could return with a vengeance
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