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February 24, 2026AI & SocietyOpen Access

From sacred order to standing-reserve: world-disclosure, ritual, and the optimization of finitude

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MAMustafa Allouch

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Philosophical analysis explores how technology inherits ritual functions, indicating potential shifts in meaning in modern life.

Key Points

  • The paper examines how technological rationality reshapes our understanding of finitude and ritual practices.
  • Analyzes historical modes of world-disclosure and their evolution from religious to technological contexts
  • Interprets the implications of Nietzsche's concept of the 'death of God' on modern existential meaning
  • Draws on Heidegger's concepts of enframing and standing-reserve to assess technology's role in meaning-making
  • Explores the coexistence and hybridization of religious and technological frameworks
  • Technological rationality reorients traditional religious functions such as meaning-making and reassurance
  • Finitude is recast from a meaningful limit into an optimizable deficit in the context of modern life
  • Certain aspects of ritual remain, but are increasingly mediated through technology
  • Questions remain about the viability of non-instrumental values in a technology-driven world.

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Mustafa Allouch (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699d3fb3de8e28729cf6457ehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02926-w
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