German Critique of Technology

[Anonymous No.23128595]

Looking for more authors like Heidegger, Junger, Jung, Wagner, etc. that evaluate technology and its dangers from within the German philosophical tradition. There's Spengler but he endorses it.

[Anonymous No.23128600]

>>23128595
>Junger
>Wagner
These are not real philosophers. Why do chuds idolize these frauds?

[Anonymous No.23128811]

>>23128600
They were great artists. Art is an equally valid vehicle with which to interpret the world.

[Anonymous No.23129113]

Klages, Benjamin

[Anonymous No.23129122]

I'd say Goethe had his share of its criticism. Like in Faust, he talks about the downsides of artificial creations like social and genetic engineering through Faust's relationship with Helen and the homunculus that live because it didn't have the capacity to love or whatever

[Anonymous No.23129186]

[Anonymous No.23129199]

>technology is… le bad

[Anonymous No.23129203]

>>23129199
Yes. Or at least technology as it is now is, where it's not even good quality. It has taken over every aspect of life but can't even have the decency to be well made.

Things would have been better if computers stagnated in 1990.

[Anonymous No.23129227]

>>23129203
>Things would have been better if computers stagnated in 1990.
This but 2000s instead

[Anonymous No.23129237]

>>23129227
No. It was already over by then. As soon as the internet became widespread, when computers were sold with the assumption they'd be networked rather than isolated devices, it was all downhill from there.

[Anonymous No.23129244]

>>23129203
You cant goon or game with a 1990s dial up 100 MB RAM “computer” (too slow to compute anything)

[Anonymous No.23129249]

>>23129244
The Amiga 1200 had 2MB of RAM. The IBM personal computer had less than 1MB of RAM.

You've been brainwashed to think a supercomputer is needed (it isn't).

[Anonymous No.23129254]

>>23129244
Let me guess, you need more?

[Anonymous No.23129539]

>>23129199
*ist schlect, sehr schlect und gay

[Anonymous No.23129567]

>>23128600
>Clever though be the many thoughts expressed by mouth or pen about the invention of money and its enormous value as a civiliser, against such praises should be set the curse to which it has always been doomed in song and legend. If gold here figures as the demon strangling manhood's innocence, our greatest poet shews at last the goblin's game of paper money. The Nibelung's fateful ring become a pocket-book, might well complete the eerie picture of the spectral world-controller. By the advocates of our Progressive Civilisation this rulership is indeed regarded as a spiritual, nay, a moral power; for vanished Faith is now replaced by "Credit," that fiction of our mutual honesty kept upright by the most elaborate safeguards against loss and trickery. What comes to pass beneath the benedictions of this Credit, we now are witnessing, and seem inclined to lay all blame upon the Jews.
- Richard Wagner, Know Thyself

>They know neither Greek myths nor Christian ethics nor French moralism nor German metaphusics nor the poetry of all the poets in the world. Before the true life, they are only dwarfs. But they are Goliath technicians – thus giants in every work of destruction, where they ultimately conceal their mission, that they ignore as such. They have a clarity and unusual precision about everything that is mechanical. They are confused, stunted, drowned, by all that is beauty and love. They are titans and cyclops, spirits of darkness, negators and enemies of all creative forces. Those who can reduce millions of years of organic development to nothing by a few meager efforts, without leaving anything behind that could equal the least spring of grass, the least grain of corn, the smaller wing of a mosquito. They are far from poems, wine, dreams, games, hopelessly lost in fallacious doctrines, articulated in the manner of pretentious professors. Nevertheless, they have their mission to accomplish.
- Ernst Junger, Paris Journals

[Anonymous No.23129617]

>>23128600
Love how you just ignored Jung, who is even more idiotic than those two.

[Anonymous No.23129625]

>>23128600
>it isn't philosophy unless it's written by an autist with a hangup on definitions.

[Anonymous No.23129677]

Goes in to detail about the effects of modern technology on ag in the early 1900s and accurately predicts the damage it will do to the enviroment, the ecology, animals and humans. It also outlines, in broad strokes, a way to fix it.

[Anonymous No.23129695]

>>23129677
You fix it by voting away the electric grid and road system

[Anonymous No.23129698]

>>23128595
Marx on machines.

[Anonymous No.23130127]

>>23129567
what book is the Jünger quote from?