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Jacques Ellul (read his "La Technique" first - don't start with "Propaganda" which builds on it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23746429 https://news.yc

• crabmusket 6y ago
  La Technique is excellent and I'm stoked to see someone recommending it. But it's very dense. I imagine it would also be highly frustratig to a lot of people here for its polemic style and his fast-and-loose approach to citations. (I always remember his line "books are meant to be read, not consulted".) The first 2/5 of the book would probably suffice to get a good understanding of his argument. I read and loved the whole thing, and it's been very influential on my thinking since then. Two articles which cover his work: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/confronting-the-technological-society https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/confronting-the-... https://crabmusket.net/blog/it-turns-everything-it-touches-into-a-machine/ https://crabmusket.net/blog/it-turns-everything-it-touches-i... (disclaimer, I wrote this) There is also the 76 questions, which you can find across the internet and which are attributed to Ellul: https://76questions.tech https://76questions.tech