/lit/ - Literature

>>13866851
Jacques - "look at this pathetic mammal faggot thinking hes gonna have a job "- Ellu

>>13806277
and i meant 100 years since he made his statement back in 1952.

just look at the state of the world ffs how much time more this shit can last ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tikJgYshk

>>12604900
well becouse Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk might just know their shit... its a long shot but they do in fact know something to the extant that at least 2 of those 3 are the richest people on earth....

but seriously tho, i find the skepticism encouraging... if people dont believe the problem is real then they will not prepare to meet it, and if they aren't prepared to meet it it might just overwhelm them when it come knocking around.
the fact that technology meakes jobs go away is not a future hypothesis - its what's going on now. the only argument to be had is that this process will accelerate to the point of a major "error" within the system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2J71U5MGg

>>10930713
Kascynki published a shitty manifesto that misrepresented and diluted the works of pic related to the point that only retarded Peterson posters are able to engage with it.

>>10881627
nice, thanks for the recs. i don't know what i should read next of his after TCS but maybe i'll look into that one.

>>10881638
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i never thought of interpreting that way before, that's kind of funny. i just use it to mean et cetera. i *do* get antsy, quite a lot.

ellul is boss tho. i really dig this book. time and again i find that critics from a religious background or dimension have amazing ways of writing about tech: mcluhan, heidegger, ellul, virilio. ofc you get amazing stuff from marx and baudrillard also, but maybe it's just that the religious guys aren't...i don't know, *seduced* by the prospect of revolution or triggered about it or whatever. you just get this nice kind of critical distance going on.

the first time i read ellul it was before heidegger and some other guys, so he was really impressive to me then, but it was a while ago and i had forgotten a lot of the things he says. i'm really enjoying the re-read.

and, of course, it doesn't hurt that history only seems to be proving the truth of a lot of what he was saying. quite a guy.