/lit/ - Literature

>>14265860
Journey to the End of the Night
Tristram Shandy
Whatever
Blood Meridian
Gulliver's Travels

Storm of Steel
The Technological Society
Human, All Too Human
The Ego and Its Own
Political Theology

>>14169005
>Is Anti Tech Revolution: Why and How worth reading if I don't share the same optimism as Ted regarding revolution? I think we are pass the point of no return
I think so because he elaborates what is probably his most important insight: a deep, insurmountable pessimism about man's ability to guide the course of his own history. The 'How' portion of the book left me a little uninspired, mostly because of how strong his 'Why" is. You may think different after having read it. I found the book to be very disturbing in a stimulating sort of way. I recommend.

>>14083959
Ellul is based but I find he doesn't, as I recall, spend enough time deliberating on the origins of this technification trap we find ourselves in or where to go from here. Only read the Technological Society. The book rang pretty solid with me. I work in a factory and I see it every day. Everything must be broken down, quantified, attempts to optimize are constant. It often seems as if we are drowning in data and that it will be our undoing. The pursuit of technification/optimization/data analysis often takes precedence over actual production. Kind of fucked.