THE ESSENTIAL A shooting broke out in a gas station in Ollioules, near Toulon, in the Var, Sunday, July 28, 2019 in the evening. Three people died and another was injured. The first two victims are two men, aged 29 and 30, known to the police for narcotics. The third victim is a 58-year-old holidaymaker. […]
12 things to understand about Technology … Tech like we’ve never explained to you
Anil Dash, VC and serial Entrepreneur is one of the finest and least complacent observers of the tech world and Silicon Valley. In a recent post, he reveals 12 inspiring, counterintuitive and sometimes disturbing truths about technology. Synthesis and perspectives: 1- Technology is not neutral Creator values are deeply embedded in Apps and buttons. When […]
Neobanks are still looking for their business model
France has more than 500 Fintech startups, a figure that shows a bubble of entrepreneurship but does not yet translate into financial success for the vast majority of these companies. Indeed, more than 50% of these financial startups have actually made less than 300,000 euros in annual revenue, according to a study by Exton Consulting, […]
Kate Middleton: The causes of the nurse’s suicide revealed
Jacintha Saldanha was buried in southwest India on Monday, 17 December , in the presence of her husband and two children, her 16 – year – old son and 14 – year – old daughter. The nurse, duped by the hoax of an Australian radio station that had called to get news of Kate Middleton, […]
Military Training Technology Online Archives
Kerrigan Media International and Military Training Technology are glad to report the 2005 MT2 Top 100. The Top 100 is a posting of organizations that have had a noteworthy effect in the military preparing industry this financial year—regardless of whether in live, virtual or productive reenactment, preparing or instruction. Military Training Technology welcomed very nearly […]
Individual’s Quest for His Individual Interest and in the Equal Expression of His Struggle for Conservation
Its uniformity lies in the individual’s quest for his individual interest and in the equal expression of his struggle for conservation. The members of the mass are individuals. but they are easily redirected against weaker competitors and against the most obviously foreign individuals (Jews, foreigners and national minorities). The mass does not claim a new […]
The Private Sphere for Production and Mass Culture
Albert Walton, op. cit., p. 27.and those who model it at once determine the human material to accomplish it. The know-how developed by such a formation makes the personality a means for purposes that perpetuate the human existence understood in an instrumental mode and replaceable in the short term by another instrument of the same […]
The Individual and Mass Are Contradictory Terms Conceptually and Empirically Incompatible
It seems at first obvious first that the individual and mass are contradictory terms conceptually and empirically incompatible. The crowd “is certainly composed of individuals, but of individuals who cease to be isolated, who cease to think. Isolated individuals in a crowd can not help thinking, criticizing emotions. The others, on the other hand, stop […]
The Growing Power of the Device is Not the Only Responsible Influence
However, the growing power of the device is not the only responsible influence. The incorporation of a large section of the opposition into the apparatus (while retaining the title of opposition) has also long contributed to render critical rationality ineffective socially. The history of this process is well known and perfectly illustrated by the development […]
Technological Rationality Also Affects Critical Truth Values.
The standardization of thought under the influence of technological rationality also affects critical truth values. These are torn from their original context and, in their new form, are the object of extensive and sometimes even official publicity. By way of example, proposals which in Europe fell within the exclusive domain of the workers’ movement are […]
Fundamentals of Industrial Psychology
Albert Walton, Fundamentals of Industrial Psychology, New York, …It is true that the force that transforms human actions into a succession of predictable reactions is an external force: the machine imposes on men the patterns of mechanized behavior, and the less competitive the individual becomes, the more the standards of competitive performance are imposed from […]
Mechanisms of Technological Rationality Extend to the Whole Society
The notion of docile efficiency perfectly illustrates the technological rationality structure. Rational thinking is being transformed from a critical force into a force of adjustment and conformity. The autonomy of reason loses its meaning to the same extent that the thoughts, emotions and actions of men are shaped by the technical requirements of a device […]
Improving the Organization and Management of Extension
The free economic subject has rather become the object of a large-scale organization and coordination. Individual achievement has been transformed into standardized performance, with motivations, guidance, and evaluation of the individual’s action being defined by predetermined tasks and functions external to him. The effective individual is one whose action is the adequate response to the […]
Technology and Civilization, Paris, Seuil, …
In this article, technology is understood as a social process in which the technology itself (ie the technical apparatus of industry, transport and communications) is only a partial factor. We will not question the influence of technology on human individuals. This is because men are both an integral part and a factor of technology, not […]
Machines That Facilitate Contact Between People Intercept and Absorb Their Libido
Arnold Thurman, The Folklore of Capitalism, New York, 1941, p.who have been trained to identify their loyalty and loyalty to these same interests. Relationships between men themselves are increasingly mediated by mechanization. However, machines that facilitate contact between people intercept and absorb their libido, diverting it from this too dangerous sphere where men are free […]
Effects of Road on Ecological Conditions
Let’s take a simple example. A man traveling by car over a long distance determines his route by means of a highway map. Cities, lakes and mountains appear as obstacles to be bypassed. The countryside is organized and designed according to highways: what the traveler finds there is no longer a derivative or an annex […]
Communist Manifesto Summary and Analysis
The human individual whom the representatives of the middle-class revolution have consecrated as the ultimate unity and the end of society bore in him values in stark contrast with those which took hold of the society of today. If one tried to gather a single concept the different religious, political and economic currents that forged […]
Web Design and Online Business Development
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