/lit/ - Literature

>Carrying certain hypotheses of the above viewpoint to their extreme limits, one might surmise that the French Revolution was perhaps less a realization of the exigency that the rights of the human be guaranteed, less a capture of power by the bourgeoisie, than an adaptation of the society to a new technical system through the full development of what Weber calls *free work.* All the analyses presented above, issuing in the formulation of such hypotheses, assign a considerable role to the engineer: to manage a technical system is to intervene in the social and economic transformations at a much more profound level than in what peoples, political organizations, and managers in the ordinary sense believe they decide. The intersection of technical and economic systems, today world- wide, issues in the techno-economic question of growth.

>With contemporary technics, in which "scientific and technical progress are...increasingly linked," in which "economic and scientific progress can no longer function separately, *there is a reversal of meaning in the general scheme: no longer is innovation what results from invention; it is a global process aiming to incite invention, it programs the rise of invention.*"

>The reduction in transfer delays mentioned above as characteristic of contemporary technics literally leads to a confusion between technical invention and scientific discovery. Research orientations are then massively controlled by industrial finalities. Anticipation, at the most global level, is essentially commanded by investment calculation—collective decision-making temporalization—in short, destiny is submitted to the techno- economic imperatives regulating this calculation. This is as well the domination of a certain understanding of time.

italicized passages (indicated here with an asterisk) are Stiegler's. i've included them here because i too would like to draw attention to this. it's a little bit cumbersome but these are the key ideas.
>*asterisks* tho. even better than italics
>you can't italicize greentext inner self
>*why not* tho. you do this constantly
>look if you want to do this instead of just criticizing me all the time, go ahead. go for it
>kek. that's not my job girardfag. *not my job* man. *not gonna do it*
>keep it down in there. don't make me play enya. i'll fucking do it inner self
>oh god no please not enya. not caribbean blue. oh god the cringe
>heh. so you do have a weak point after all