Category: a. technology

Humanity’s New Grand Narrative – Beyond The Beatles.

A visual manifesto here for a new cultural epoch.The original 1967 album captured the 1960s fusion of art, music, Eastern mysticism, and countercultural rebellion — a “summer of love” humanism that celebrated expanded consciousness through psychedelics, creativity, and social upheaval. Replacing the Beatles with Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis signals a… Read More Humanity’s New Grand Narrative – Beyond The Beatles.

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The Revolt Against Technological Excess.

The New “Luddites” on College Campuses. “In this video, I discuss the New Luddites we’re seeing on college campuses. I try to place this movement in conversation with philosophers throughout history who have been critical of technology. Topics include: the history of the Luddites, Plato on writing in the Phaedrus, Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology’,… Read More The Revolt Against Technological Excess.

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Revisiting Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society

“As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of… Read More Revisiting Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society

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