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GLOBALNI EKRAN
THE GLOBAL SCREEN

Author(s): Sead Alić
Subject(s): Media studies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Logos – Centar za kulturu I edukaciju
Keywords: mythos and logos; mysticism; the global screen; media; propaganda;

Summary/Abstract: Conceiving one’s time sometimes means employing one’s thought in order to explain the extremes that befall the human spirit. The intention of this work is the contemplative confrontation between the mystical experience of faith and the secular games of the mass-media spectacle, which seek to use the void of the human soul so as to transform man into a means of realising (political, neo-colonial and imperialist) objectives. By combining what is seemingly incompatible, the text seeks to point to the primeval link between these worlds and the familiarity between them. The metaphor of the ‘global screen’ lies at the centre of the association. It demonstrates that, alongside all the negatives that the metaphor implies, it also announces the necessity of reversal: the desert is a powerful sign letting know the soul (which carries divinity within) that it should make its way out of the desert. This has its consequences to the theoretical, theological, and political field.

  • Issue Year: 4/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-118
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Bosnian