"It is not only its use, but #technology itself that already constitutes domination (over nature and over people), a domination that is methodical, scientific, calculated and calculating. It is not only after the fact, and from outside, that certain ends and interests specific to domination are imposed on technology - these ends and interests are already part of the constitution of the technical apparatus itself. From the outset, technology is an entire socio-historical project."

#Quote from Herbert Marcuse, taken from his #book Industrialisation and Capitalism, 1964

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الحرية الإنسانية لا تقاس تبعاً للإختيار المتاح للفرد، وإنما العامل الحاسم والوحيد في تحديدها هو ما يستطيع الفرد اختياره وما يختاره”

― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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"The alienation of the spectator in favour of the object contemplated is expressed as follows: The more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he accepts to recognise himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desire... This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere".

Guy Debord, in his book "La société du spectacle", 1967

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“The high standard of living in the domain of the great corporations is restrictive in a concrete sociological sense: the goods and services that the individuals buy control their needs and petrify their faculties. In exchange for the commodities that enrich their life, the individuals sell not only their labor but also their free time. The better living is offset by the all-pervasive control over living. People dwell in apartment concentrations- and have private automobiles with which they can no longer escape into a different world. They have huge refrigerators filled with frozen foods. They have dozens of newspapers and magazines that espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable choices, innumerable gadgets which are all of the same sort and keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue- which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satisfactions.”

Marcuse, in "Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud"

On display: Consuming culture is not a fundamental need. Our bodies become addicted to entertainment, like they do to nicotine, sugar or chocolate; four industries.

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"Some companies get people hooked with pills and needles. Others with apps and algorithms. But either way, it’s just churning out junkies."

Ted Gioia: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

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