/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15671447]

Can you suggest me some books (both fiction and non-fiction, poetry is fine too) that deal with, or criticize the negative impact of technology, urbanization, science, etc... on the human psyche, but do so in a detailed/subtle manner?
That is, they don't consist of trite, surface-level arguments that sound like they're written by a moralizing boomer ("phone bad") or an ecofascist ("what if humans are the virus")?
>inb4 "that's all there is to it, technology bad, what is there more to say?"

I've read Brave New World, planning to read "Industrial Society and Its Future". I suppose I should look into the Romantic movement and its praise of nature/rejection of industrialization. I'm not interested in /pol/-tier empty political rhetoric -- the "reject modernity, embrace tradition" kind of memes -- I acknowledge the conservative/reactionary political angle that underlies these themes, but there's more to it than just politics.

[Anonymous No.15671475]

Like every other force in human history, technology partitions humans to winners and losers -- reveals some as free and others as slaves (Heraclitus) -- the only reason why you would reject technology is if you were one of the LOSERS -- one of the SLAVES. You will not amount to anything. You lost the battle of YOUR lifetime, your period in history, because you are a SUBHUMAN.

[Anonymous No.15671526]

>>15671475
Nice sperg out. But I bet you'd sperg out even harder when your phone/computer breaks and you realize you're unable to fix it, and you serve technology, instead of the other way around.

[Anonymous No.15671564]

>>15671475
partially correct but add some recomendations at least
>>15671447
Adorno's Minima Moralia
Heidegger's Queestion concerning technology
Bacon' New Atlantis
Higgs' Technology and the good life

There is also a lot of Decolonial, ecofascist and cyberpunk literature about it

[Anonymous No.15671589]

>>15671564
>ecofascist
I hope you mean deep ecology

[Anonymous No.15671616]

>>15671589
i don't care what you hope for
cope

[Anonymous No.15671635]

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[Anonymous No.15671656]

Amusing Ourselves to Death

[Anonymous No.15671662]

Lol you've spent so much time on the internet you seem to think that 4chan style shitposting is the norm amongst intellectual circles.

[Anonymous No.15671675]

>>15671447

This one is from an indigenous brazilian.

[Anonymous No.15671685]

>>15671447
Desert Solitaire

[Anonymous No.15671687]

>>15671447
Guattari.

[Anonymous No.15671703]

>>15671447
Byung-Chul Han.

[cc No.15671717]

>>15671447
americans are the most obese nation because it is the most driving nation. that is enough to understand a lot.

[Anonymous No.15671788]

>>15671564
Thanks for the suggestions!
>Decolonial, ecofascist and cyberpunk
About the "ecofascist" part I was referring to pretentious normies all repeat the same thing, "thank you based Corona-chan for reducing pollution", while you know that when this shit ends, nothing will change in their habits.
Really interested in the cyberpunk suggestions, I love noir and fatalist aesthetics.
Please elaborate on decolonialism too (>t. cracka)

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>>15671703
Noted, thank you.
I forgot to mention in the first post, established traditions of mysticism/spiritualism interest me too, such as the connection Native Americans felt with nature.

>>15671717
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass_index
>the US is up there with a bunch of 3rd world countries
American exceptionalism indeed.

[Anonymous No.15671852]

>>15671788
One more. :)

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[Anonymous No.15673329]

>>15672426
Kaczynski is not an anarch-primitivist but the charts still has some good books

[Anonymous No.15673361]

>>15671447
The Imperative of responsibility by Hans Jonas.

[Anonymous No.15673387]

>>15673329
Ted opposed more than just technology, he opposed systems. He disliked the idea that people could be conditioned to respond to a stimulus ala Skinner; no matter what others do in refutation, there is always part of us that responds to operant conditioning. Red means stop.

[Anonymous No.15673440]

>>15671447
all watched over by machines of loving grace by richard brautigan

[Anonymous No.15673865]

>>15671447
The Social Ideology of the Motorcar, by Andre Gorz
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Death of the American Dream by Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
The Situationist Theses on Traffic, by Guy Debord