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2580845 No.2580845 [Reply] [Original]

This book is amazing. Why does nobody seem to have read this guy but me?

>> No.2580848

Tell us why it's amazing and maybe we'll read it.

>> No.2580855
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2580855

>Ellul
>Nobody reads him

Why is /lit/ so sheltered? Check out Technopoly by Postman.

>> No.2580858

>>2580848
I'm only 1/3rd of the way through, but can already tell it is sheer gold.
>discussing how rationalization and technological method has shaped human social organization to the point of dominating the nature of human society
>IE to the point at which the technological complex actively defines human civilization while being completely blind
>IE the technological society

Elull doesn't venerate the past or suggest there is a viable alternative, he doesn't even suggest determinism has to exist while accepting the deterministic nature of society

>>2580855
I had the choice of reading Technopoly and the name sounded like sensationalist one-issue trash I didn't even bother.

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2580865

>>2580858

Yeah, well 'The Technological Society' isn't a sensational beckoning to sectors of the 'techno-left' or anything like that. I guess you're right. Totally.

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>>2580865
>Thinking I'm not completely right and you're not absolutely wrong