IVIV (12): 195-197

[alice wellintown]

> But he doesn't ascribe agency to it. That seems lost on the many readers who
> would enlist him in some late-late-Romantic crusade to Get Ourselves Back to
> the Garden: "we're warm and human because we bailed out during Algebra 1,
> and Technology is our chill external foe." The passage above is pretty
> un-ambivalent about that stance: it's not just clueless, it actually makes
> things easier for the *people* -- not  the trends, not the tendencies, not
> the historical inevitabilities, not the technology, the *people* -- who are
> fucking us over.
>
> -Monte

1. The texts clearly ascribe agency to technology.
2. Determinism!
3. No Return. Any and All attempt to Return to a Garden, to a Lost
Paradise, or to establish some Puritan Paradise on Earth is the work
of Blicero / Death against Life.
4. We've only got the people to thank and to blame; all else is the inanimate.
5. But go ahead, kick that machine in its gears.