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Technology
A broad concept encompassing a host of inter-related "techniques," which include the state, politics, propaganda, and sciences, as well as gadgets and other "tools," which humans use to control and dominate each other, the natural world, and nonhuman animals and which themselves dominate. This latter aspect is probably the least well-recognized aspect of technology. Technology actually dominates our lives. This seems counter-intuitive to many of us because we have constructed a myth that technology has brought us freedom, happiness, and quality of life never heard of before, and any problem that arises, technology can fix it. Lewis Mumford once called this the “ultimate religion of our seemingly rational age.” There are very few problems of major importance in the modern world that have not been caused by technology. Global warming, pollution, extinctions, diseases of affluence (cancer, heart disease, and diabetes), militarization, increased police surveillance and technique, and a host of problems can all be traced back to the problem of technology. Yet, instead of questioning the original technology that caused the problems, we look for a new technology to fix the problem, which in turn creates new technologically driven problems, creating new technologies to fix it, and on and on the circle goes. It is a quick fix mentality that looks to technology to solve our problems, that believes that technology can do so, and that it can do so in a pure manner.
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The Betrayal by Technology: an interview with French theologian/sociologist, Jacques Ellul, discusses how the technological society differs from previous societies, how it leads to a breakdown in ethics and worldviews and the hope we may have in changing.
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John Zerzan speaks about how all technologies have values inscribed into them, and are not merely neutral tools. This clip is from a lecture given at Binghamton University, April 2008.
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Berry, Wendell. “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer.” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Autumn 1987): 112–13.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Bluff. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
———. “Technology and Culture.” Proceedings of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Conference on the Technological Order 3, no. 4 (Autumn, 1962)._
———. “The Technological Order.” In The Technological Order, edited by Carl F. Stover, 10–35. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963. Reprinted in Ellul, Philosophy and Technology: Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Technology, edited by Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, 10–37. New York: Free Press, 1972.
———. The Technological System. New York: Continuum, 1980.
———. “The Technological Society: A Dialogue.” The Nation 200, no. 21 (May 24, 1965): 567.
———. “The Artist and the Technological Society.” Structurist 6 (1966): 35–41.
———. “Losing Faith in Technology.” Playboy 18 (1971): 55–56.
———. “Technology and the Gospel.” International Review of Mission 66, no. 262 (1977): 109–17.
———. “Symbolic Function, Technology and Society ” Journal of Social and Biological Systems 1, no. 3 (1978): 207–18.
———. “Remarks on Technology and Art.” Social Research 46, no. 1 (1979): 805–33.
———. “Nature, Technique and Artificiality.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 3, edited by Paul Durbin. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1980.
———. “The Power of Technique and the Ethics of Nonpower.” In Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustiral Culture, edited by Kathleen Woodward, 242–47. Madison, Wis.: Coda Press, 1980._
———. “The Ethics of Nonpower.” In Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology, edited by Melvin Kranzberg, 204–12. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1980.
———. “The Latest Developments in the Technology and the Philosophy of the Absurd.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 7, edited by Paul Durbin, 77–97. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1981.
———. “Science, Technology, Society in France Today.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 1, no. 1–2 (1981): 17–21.
———. “Art and Technology.” Structurist 21/22 (1981/1982): 12–18.
———. “A Theological Reflection on Nuclear Developments: The Limits of Science, Technology, and Power.” In Waging Peace, edited by Jim Wallis, 114–20. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982.
———. “New Hope for the Technological Society: An Interview with Jacques Ellul.” Et Cetera 40, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 192–206.
———. “Technique and the Opening Chapters of Genesis.” In Theology and Technology: Essays in Christian Analysis and Exegesis, edited by Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote, 123–37. New York: University Press of America, 1984.
———. “The Global Technological System and the Human Response.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 8 (April 1988): 139–42.
———. “The Search for Ethics in a Technicist Society.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 9, edited by Carl Mitcham. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989.
———. “Response by Jacques Ellul to the November 1993 Conference on Technique and Society in the Work of Jacques Ellul.” Faith and Freedom 3, no. 4 (Dec. 1994): 14–15.
Glendinning, Chellis. “Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto,” Utne Reader, 38, no. 1 (March/April 1990): 50–53.
———. “Technology, Trauma, and the Wild.” In Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. edited by T. Roszak, et al., 41–54. San Francisco. Sierra Club Books, 1995 .
———. "The Technological Society." Vintage Books, 1964.
A lengthy and detailed look at humanity in service of technique. French Theologian and Sociologist, Jacques Ellul, looks at a host of human activities showing how each has succumbed to the logic of efficiency for efficiency sake, and led to increasing alienation and dehumanization in the process.
Zerzan, John. “Technology.” Green Anarchy 17 (2004): 10.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Bluff. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
———. “Technology and Culture.” Proceedings of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Conference on the Technological Order 3, no. 4 (Autumn, 1962)._
———. “The Technological Order.” In The Technological Order, edited by Carl F. Stover, 10–35. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963. Reprinted in Ellul, Philosophy and Technology: Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Technology, edited by Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, 10–37. New York: Free Press, 1972.
———. The Technological System. New York: Continuum, 1980.
———. “The Technological Society: A Dialogue.” The Nation 200, no. 21 (May 24, 1965): 567.
———. “The Artist and the Technological Society.” Structurist 6 (1966): 35–41.
———. “Losing Faith in Technology.” Playboy 18 (1971): 55–56.
———. “Technology and the Gospel.” International Review of Mission 66, no. 262 (1977): 109–17.
———. “Symbolic Function, Technology and Society ” Journal of Social and Biological Systems 1, no. 3 (1978): 207–18.
———. “Remarks on Technology and Art.” Social Research 46, no. 1 (1979): 805–33.
———. “Nature, Technique and Artificiality.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 3, edited by Paul Durbin. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1980.
———. “The Power of Technique and the Ethics of Nonpower.” In Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustiral Culture, edited by Kathleen Woodward, 242–47. Madison, Wis.: Coda Press, 1980._
———. “The Ethics of Nonpower.” In Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology, edited by Melvin Kranzberg, 204–12. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1980.
———. “The Latest Developments in the Technology and the Philosophy of the Absurd.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 7, edited by Paul Durbin, 77–97. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1981.
———. “Science, Technology, Society in France Today.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 1, no. 1–2 (1981): 17–21.
———. “Art and Technology.” Structurist 21/22 (1981/1982): 12–18.
———. “A Theological Reflection on Nuclear Developments: The Limits of Science, Technology, and Power.” In Waging Peace, edited by Jim Wallis, 114–20. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982.
———. “New Hope for the Technological Society: An Interview with Jacques Ellul.” Et Cetera 40, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 192–206.
———. “Technique and the Opening Chapters of Genesis.” In Theology and Technology: Essays in Christian Analysis and Exegesis, edited by Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote, 123–37. New York: University Press of America, 1984.
———. “The Global Technological System and the Human Response.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 8 (April 1988): 139–42.
———. “The Search for Ethics in a Technicist Society.” In Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 9, edited by Carl Mitcham. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989.
———. “Response by Jacques Ellul to the November 1993 Conference on Technique and Society in the Work of Jacques Ellul.” Faith and Freedom 3, no. 4 (Dec. 1994): 14–15.
Glendinning, Chellis. “Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto,” Utne Reader, 38, no. 1 (March/April 1990): 50–53.
———. “Technology, Trauma, and the Wild.” In Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. edited by T. Roszak, et al., 41–54. San Francisco. Sierra Club Books, 1995 .
———. "The Technological Society." Vintage Books, 1964.
A lengthy and detailed look at humanity in service of technique. French Theologian and Sociologist, Jacques Ellul, looks at a host of human activities showing how each has succumbed to the logic of efficiency for efficiency sake, and led to increasing alienation and dehumanization in the process.
Zerzan, John. “Technology.” Green Anarchy 17 (2004): 10.