War, Technology, Acceleration:
Responding to the Cries of the Earth Through Stability and Contemplation
Tuesday, October 8, 8:15-9:30 pm ET
In this presentation, Bridgefolk Board Member Br. Denys Janiga OSB will talk about the relationship between war, ecology, and society, with a focus on technology.
He will discuss some of the recent technologies being deployed in modern conflicts, including Ukraine and Russia, Gaza and Israel, and Azerbaijan and Armenia. This will then move into a discussion of the notion of the “technocratic paradigm,” which Pope Francis has critiqued in his encyclical Laudato Si. Building on the pope’s encyclical, Br. Denys will use the work of Hartmut Rosa to better understand the temporal dimension of modern societies that he refers to as acceleration. The presentation will conclude with a Benedictine response through the vow of stability and contemplation.
After working as a program development assistant for the Environmental Studies program at the College of Saint Benedict (CSB) and Saint John’s University (SJU), Br. Denys has recently joined the university’s Campus Ministry staff. A member of Saint John’s Abbey, he is also a student in the Saint John’s School of Theology.
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