The Technological Society
The Autonomous Technique
On how efficiency became an end in itself, consuming all human purposes and transforming technique from tool into autonomous master
The Technological Society
The Technological Society
The Enframing
On technology's transformation of being itself, and how the reduction of all things to resources closes off other ways of knowing the world
The Technological Society
The Megamachine
On the organizational machine that preceded the steam engine, and how industrial mechanization merely copied what kingdoms had perfected for millennia
The Technological Society
Tools for Conviviality
On how institutions designed to serve human flourishing inevitably turn destructive once they exceed certain thresholds of scale and specialization
The Technological Society
Technopoly
On how technology becomes authority when a culture abandons the narratives that once constrained it, and why America arrived there first
The Technological Society
The Spell of the Sensuous
On how alphabetic writing severed our reciprocal relationship with an animate world, and what shamanic cultures knew that we forgot