/lit/ - Literature

>>17087163
I wonder why big game companies don't hire novelists to punch up their scripts like Faulkner writing movies back in the day.

>>17087306
You seem to labor under the assumption that state power is qualitatively different than other sorts of power and you have taken appealed to the authority of a dictionary to shield this assumption. Following this along, only a state could be authoritarian or oppressive or all manner of things. Is this the case?

Is it impossible of, say, a religion or corporate culture to demand absolute personal and private subservience? Can these power structures not be totalitarian? Can we not use this term to describe such structures when they act thus? Seems like the weaponization of meaning.

>>16532221
>a 'critique', following on that of Max Weber, of what he referred to as 'economic-technical thought',
Where is this elaborated? It seems quite consonant with Ellul's critique of the technological society's obsession with the reduction of all action to reproducible formulae?