Technology and Religion

Where it surfaces

• II: The Karburator

  Bondy's ecstatic, almost religious experience in the cellar suggests the Karburator evokes a pantheistic or spiritual awe, blurring the line between technological marvel and divine encounter.

• III: Pantheism

  Marek's Karburator, a technological marvel, inadvertently releases the Absolute, blurring the line between scientific progress and spiritual experience.

• IV: God in the Cellar

  The Karburator mechanically produces God, blurring the line between scientific invention and divine revelation.

• Bishop Linda

  The Karburator, a technological invention, produces religious ecstasy, blurring the line between science and faith.

• VII: Developments

  The Karburator's success is juxtaposed with a wave of religious mania affecting bankers and industrialists, suggesting a spiritual crisis triggered by technological upheaval.

• VIII: The Dredge

  The dredge and its Karburator are worshipped as a divine machine, an 'iron church,' where God is said to be incarnate in the vessel.

• IX: The Ceremony

  The Karburator ceremony takes on a quasi-religious tone, with the President pressing a lever like a priest, and the press later describing the event as a miracle and an act of worship.

• X: Saint Ellen

  The Karburator, a technological device, unleashes the Absolute, leading to religious phenomena like thought-reading and strikes.

• XI: The First Blow Struck

  The Karburator, a technological device, becomes the center of a quasi-religious experience, with Binder using it to draw followers and preach.

• XIV: The Land of Plenty

  The Karburator releases the Absolute, which then manifests through both religious miracles and industrial production, blending technology with divine power.

• XIX: The Process of Canonization

  The Karburator is installed in St. Peter's as a central object of worship, and atomic motors are implicated in religious phenomena in Africa and Arabia.

• XXI: The Telegram

  The telegram serves as a technological conduit for what appears to be a prophetic confirmation, blending modern communication with quasi-religious revelation.

• The Augsburg Imbroglio

  The Karburator technology is used as a weapon, and supernatural forces intervene in the conflict, blending technological and religious elements.

• XXIV: The Napoleon of the Mountain Brigade

  Bobinet's campaign targets Karburators (atomic motors) as symbols of the Absolute, blending technological destruction with anti-religious state policy.