'Avatar': Nostalgia de lo sagrado

 

Reseña de la película de James Cameron Avatar (2009), con crítica de su imaginario cultural, ideológico e intertextual. Los humanos queremos ser posthumanos trascendiendo e ignorando el cuerpo de carne y la base material tecnológica y económica que sustenta la experiencia de la virtualidad. En la película de Cameron, volverse Na'vi es volverse humano auténtico, un retorno a la esencia básica y un volver a lo que fuimos, pero... la vía propuesta es fantástica, limitada al universo virtual y provisional de la película. Es Avatar una propuesta de regreso puramente ficcional a lo sagrado, una ensoñación primitivista para videojugadores consumistas. 

 

Avatar: Nostalgia de lo sagrado

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/j4tg-jm68

Author(s):

José Angel GARCÍA LANDA (see profile)

Date:

2019

Group(s):

Philosophy of Religion

Subject(s):

Film studies, Religion, Cultural studies

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

James Cameron, Avatar, nostalgia, Sacred, Postmodernity

Permanent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/j4tg-jm68

 

 

English abstract: A review of James Cameron's film Avatar (2009) and a critique of its cultural, ideological and intertextual imaginary. Humans aspire to a posthuman condition transcending and ignoring the fleshly body and the material, technological and economic basis which underpins the experience of virtuality. In Cameron's film, becoming a Na'vi is becoming an authentic human, back to basics and back to what we used to be, but the way proposed is fantastic and limited to the film's provisional virtual universe. Avatar articulates a purely fictional return to the sacred, a primitivistic daydream for videogamers in a consumer society.

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