Living in Neo-Times: Apocalyptic Atmospheres, Ritual Practices, and Posthuman Horizons of Spiritual Awakening

Authors : Serap Sarıbaş

Pages : 98-123

Doi:10.47124/viraverita.1772175

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Publication Date : 2025-11-28

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Neo-temporalities designate an ontological and affective matrix wherein collapse acquires intelligibility as a generative rather than terminal condition. Spirituality within the contemporary horizon of crisis and exhaustion functions not as a residual metaphysics but as an ontopoietic force that sustains meaning amid systemic disintegration. The analysis spans literary, cinematic, digital, and ecological terrains, examining apocalyptic imaginaries that recast temporality as an affective economy of renewal. Melancholy, anxiety, grief, and fragile hope operate as distributed intensities shaping collective endurance under precarity. Posthuman perspectives expose the entanglement of body, technicity, and spirit, situating collapse at the threshold where transcendence dissolves into immanence. Neo-temporality thus functions as an ontology of relation in time, affect, and matter co-constitute the conditions of thought and existence. Neo-awakening emerges as a contingent recomposition of the spiritual, enacted within provisional rituals and unstable solidarities. The prefix “neo” signals discontinuity and recursion, defining a temporality predicated on rupture and reconfiguration. Cultural production in this context assumes the character of ontological praxis, an activity in ethics, affect, and materiality converge to rearticulate meaning in the aftermath of modernity.
Keywords : Spiritüellik, Neo-Zamanlar, Kıyametvari İmgelemler, Dijital Ritüeller, Posthüman Ufuklar

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