/lit/ - Literature

What you are describing sounds similar to the concept of Deterritorialization. I wouldn't go to bat for all of these guys but the idea was first explored in the work of Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". These guys take their observations and take it in a more Marxist direction, but their observations are accurate in my opinion.
Another would be the works of Jacques Ellul, who predicted the decline of civilization due to the pursuit of technological efficiency over culture and quality in "The Technological Society".
These might be too unrelated for you but your post did make me think of them.