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 […]