ABSTRACT
In the conclusion the editors remind readers about the experimental nature of the volume while also expressing confidence about the intrinsic value of their approach and the individual contributions in addressing a thoroughly neglected, but also misconstrued subject with enormous implications for the modern condition. It argues that bringing together ’technology-subversion-divinisation’ is highly significant as it sheds light on the modalities in which modern life is systematically subverted. While technology is an onerous topic to handle given its overall positive valorization, it is important to understand its connections to obscure practices like alchemy and hermeticism, and their links with modern science and the central issue of the void. Seen in such a light, technology is not simply a secular and scientific activity, but a divinization practice through which humans attempt to acquire divine powers. At the heart of technology and its proliferation by the modern state and capitalism lies the essential problem of the human soul and its corruption and even eradication through technological-scientific rationality. As always, the issue is to reflect on the fine line between a healthy sense of personhood and the pull towards transcendence as expressed in the modern technological project.
