To know a thing by its parts is science, to feel it as a whole is art.
-- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

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La mégamachine et la critique nietzschéenne : une réflexion sur l’industrialisation et ses dérives

Nouveau billet : La mégamachine et la critique nietzschéenne : industrialisation et déshumanisation Découvrez comment Lewis Mumford et Friedrich Nietzsche ont analysé les dérives technologiques et sociales liées à l'industrialisation. Une réflexion essentielle pour comprendre notre époque technocratique. #Philosophie #Nietzsche #LewisMumford #Technologie #Écologie La…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/la-megamachine-et-la-critique-nietzscheenne-une-reflexion-sur-lindustrialisation-et-ses-derives/

The future of our civilization depends upon our ability to select and control our heritage from the past, to alter our present attitudes and habits, and to project fresh forms into which our energies may be freely poured.
-- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

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The future of our civilization depends upon our ability to select and control our heritage from the past, to alter our present attitudes and habits, and to project fresh forms into which our energies may be freely poured.
-- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

#Wisdom #Quotes #LewisMumford #Civilization #TheFuture

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@europesays La Mégamachine de Lewis Mumford : une critique percutante de notre dépendance technologique croissante. Mumford met en lumière comment les systèmes techniques, loin de libérer l'individu, renforcent le contrôle et l'aliénation. Face à cette organisation froide et déshumanisante, il appelle à une réévaluation de notre rapport à la technologie. Ne laissons pas la Mégamachine définir notre avenir ! #Mégamachine #LewisMumford #Technologie #Liberté #CritiqueSociale

I'm no expert on the history of technology, but the quotation from one of the few books in that field I have read makes me keen to explore this site.

Creatures of Thought

https://technicshistory.com/about/

I've been thinking about #artificialintelligence, calls for its #regulation & some previous cases of #technological determinism.

As I've said here before, perhaps the best way of thinking about all this is to return to the work of #LewisMumford who makes the distinction between Authoritarian Technics & Democratic Technics... which encourages us to focus not on the characteristic(s) of #technology, but rather the #political interests of those who deploy & promote it.

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/technology/is-artificial-intelligence-out-of-our-control/

@fencoul
yes I've talked about that in reference to #LewisMumford & the distinction between democratic & authoritarian technics.... the same #technology but difference political context(s) - see post on Dec30th last year

So I've been on #Mastodon for 2 months & have pretty much completely shifted my #socialmedia activity over to here (with the occasional tweet just to keep that a/c alive & the name/identity unavailable for re-use);

here, while I have still had some fraught exchanges, in the vast majority of cases these have been more civil & constructive... so thank you to everyone for making this a much better place & for continuing to build a more 'democratic technics' (see #LewisMumford post on 30 Dec)

#LewisMumford, writing on #technology & society, deployed the term 'Technics' to discuss interactions between technology & the socio-political uses to which it was put.

He used two categories:
Authoritarian Technics; and
Democratic Technics.
The same technology could be both in different circumstances depending on its control & use....

This seems to me to be a useful way of distinguishing #Twitter (authoritarian/centralised) and #Mastodon (democratic/decntralised)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691180050123721