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NOTHING AT ALL ESCAPES TECHNIQUE...

"if we are to avoid the disasters it lays open to us and take advantage of
the opportunities it presents, we must put it in the control of reason."

But one contributor was highly skeptical of the proposition that rational
control of technology was still possible. The French historian,
sociologist, and lay theologian Jacques Ellul was not present at the
meeting but submitted a lengthy essay, the claims of which became a subject
of dispute at the conference. "Technique," he argued -- broadly conceived to
include not merely machines and other technical devices but the whole
complex of rationally ordered methods for making any human activity more
efficient -- has outgrown human control, even if we are able to govern
individual technologies. This technical complex has taken on a life of its
own, threatening human freedom and responsibility and suppressing the
necessary conditions under which a solution to this predicament seems
possible.

The sixties, as I could tell from my earliest work in bookstores, were full
of this societal conversation. This book sold, special issues of
periodicals, symposia, McLuhan hotter than Inherent Vice, etc.....I even
read some of them (or parts of them in the case of Ellul's book.

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Jacques Ellul is one of my favorite thinkers, and this is a terrific piece.
"Nothing at all escapes technique." thenewatlantis.com/publications/c...
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