2026· Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions· 0 citations
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This article develops a conceptual-comparative reading of Yorùbá Ifá divination and Javanese wayang kulit as posthuman knowledge machines. It asks how both practices redistribute epistemic agency beyond the human, including what counts as an authoritative speaker, and how they produce veridiction that turns narrative into binding guidance. Rather than treating Ifá and wayang as folklore, heritage objects, or symbolic performances alone, the article argues that both function as structured apparatuses for authorizing knowledge through corpus, procedure, material mediation, and communal uptake. Ifá is examined as a divinatory and normative system in which guidance is routed through corpus, consultation, and interpretive authority, while wayang is read as a performative machine that transforms spectacle into tuntunan, or moral guidance. The article concludes that their added value lies in epistemic-ethical surplus: the capacity to produce accountable guidance through distributed agency and more-than-human relationality.
This conceptual paper defends a deliberately limited proposition: that such a system can take on the functional role of a co-comparatist, proposing intertextual relations across corpora that human scholars must then evaluate, and that this functional shift is enough to unsettle the anthropocentric foundation of compara...
Viraj P. Tathavadekar, A. Erceg, Pallavi Priya Silveira· Literary Horizons Review· 0 citations
Following Hanegraaff’s (2020: 73) claim that pioneers in our field considered it “to be no less than essential for any adequate understanding of the history of human culture and society as such,” this text answers Schilbrack’s (2013) question: “After we deconstruct ‘religion’, then what?” The answer is formulated wit...
Milan Fujda· Method & Theory in the S...· 0 citations
It is argued that theology should neither withdraw into disciplinary isolation nor claim authority over technical questions; rather, it can contribute cross-contextual normative judgment concerning human dignity, epistemic autonomy, personhood, responsibility, and the common good.
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A. Vudka· Technophany, A Journal for P...· 0 citations
An ethics of non-agentive AI is sketched: the authors should see these systems as powerful, instrument-like extensions of human cognition, not as knowers in their own right, and design institutions, interfaces and norms of trust accordingly.
Neumann Saskia Janina· Digital Society· 0 citations
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