/lit/ - Literature

>>19256639
Industrial Society And Its Future

>>18181152
The industrial revolution, actually

>>17897199
The system doesn't want to subvert itself, why would it do that? Read "The system's neatest trick" by Kaczynski.

>>15233213
The techies' belief-system can best be explained as a religious phenomenon, to which we may give the name "Technianity." It's true that Technianity at this point is not strictly speaking a religion, because it has not yet developed anything resembling a uniform body of doctrine; the techies' beliefs are widely varied. In this respect Technianity probably resembles the inceptive stages of many other religions. Nevertheless, Technianity already has the earmarks of an apocalyptic and millenarian cult: In most versions it anticipates a cataclysmic event, the Singularity, which is the point at which technological progress is supposed to become so rapid as to resemble an explosion. This is analogous to the Judgment Day of Christian mythology or the Revolution of Marxist mythology. The cataclysmic event is supposed to be followed by the arrival of techno-utopia (analogous to the Kingdom of God or the Worker's Paradise). Technianity has a favored minority-the Elect-consisting of the techies (equivalent to the True Believers of Christianity or the Proletariat of the Marxists). The Elect of Technianity, like that of Christianity, is destined to Eternal Life; though this element is missing from Marxism.

Historically, millenarian cults have tended to emerge at "times of great social change or crisis." This suggests that the techies' beliefs reflect not a genuine confidence in technology, but rather their own anxieties about the future of the technological society-anxieties from which they try to escape by creating a quasi-religious myth.

>>14952446
>>14954860
The techies may answer that even if almost all biological species are eliminated eventually, many species survive for thousands or millions of years, so maybe techies too can survive for thousands or millions of years. But when large, rapid changes occur in the environment of biological species, both the rate of appearance of new species and the rate of extinction of existing species are greatly increased. Technological progress constantly accelerates, and techies like Ray Kurzweil insist that it will soon become virtually explosive; consequently, changes come more and more rapidly, everything happens faster and faster, competition among self-prop systems becomes more and more intense, and as the process gathers speed the losers in the struggle for survival will be eliminated ever more quickly. So, on the basis of the techies' own beliefs about the exponential acceleration of technological development, it's safe to say that the life-expectancies of human-derived entities, such as man-machine hybrids and human minds uploaded into machines, will actually be quite short. The seven-hundred year or thousand-year life-span to which some techies aspire is nothing but a pipe-dream.

>>14911109
>This is what techcucks actually believe

>>14765765
Industrial Society And Its Future

does anybody have an epub of Anti-Tech Revolution?

>>14190117

>not based

>>14004530
I unironically read a reddit thread a while back about this guy. Reflect perfectly my thoughts about today's civilization. I love uncle Ted.

What is the best choice between Oxford World's Classics, Penguin Classics and Everyman's Library Classics?

>>13877604
Our guy Ted

>>13751460
>Something about recent technology seems to allow our insecurities to run amok like never before.
He has very midwit takes on the technological question, the culture of narcissism, and atomized individualism. He has just enough self-awareness to have a feeling that these things are a problem, but is not redpilled on the scope of these issues, and how totalitarian they really are, which Kaczynski, Ellul, and Lasch have described with clarity and abject horror.

>>12937137
I said hopefully.
America is going to balkanize either way.
Pray it happens peacefully.
If not, the 2nd American Civil War (or whatever you want to call the coming period of civil unrest) will be one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history with massive civilian casualties.

>>12049215
get rekt faggot

Dear /lit/!

I recently applied for a job at an academy for political education! As a part of the job interview i have to give a keynote speech about the theoretical and ethical foundations of politics in modern societies.

Can you recommend me any authors besides the classics (Hobbes, Strauss, Schmitt, Rousseau, Habermas) that may come in handy for this? or give me general advice?

Thanks in advance

>>11809304

Ted, literally the same evil genom

>>11439990
GOOD list!

I'd add:
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How - the Unabomber
The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
Anything by John Zerzan
Repent to the Primitive - John Jacobi

>>11396496
This is what I came here for.
Thank you.

Tell me /lit/, how bad is it really?

>>11263872
Motherfucker

Alright, I'll slap it together. You a student ? I go to unc