/lit/ - Literature

>>21321229
Read Ellul.

>>20678837
Maybe I confused you by using the English translation, as "technology" is meant in French as technique, which is the metaphysical concept Ellul describes. As far as I know Heidegger equated techne with episteme, but Ellul's technique is not related to knowledge in the same way. And from his essays, my understanding is that technology creates and maintains its own framework (Gestell) and absorbs all other frames under it, correct? This is one aspect of technique Ellul discusses most directly in The Technological System, but my problem with Heidegger is that he only engages with these ideas in the most abstract way and cannot fully grasp the idea of the modern technical phenomenon, while Ellul performs actual sociological analysis and clearly describes.
>Van Vleet offers a brief comparison of Ellul to two other philosophers of technology, Marcuse and Heidegger, and notes in particular how Ellul's dialectic informs his thought. Whereas Heidegger believes humans can remain "free" over against the rise of new technologies, Ellul warns of an illusion that technology does not dominate us. As interesting as Heidegger's reflections on technology are (and they really are!), they are weak precisely because they lack dialectical tension.

>>20665071
Sounds like a technocratic hellhole. Read Ellul.

>>20648991
This is from The Technological System's footnotes.

>>20628136
Read Ellul.

>>20417214
Read Ellul.

>>20148681
People create many things, do you think any of those material objects are sincere? Do you think a house someone builds is sincere? Only what lives can be genuine.

>>20142897
Read Ellul.