Technological acceleration and the "ground floor of civilization"

Daniel Cérézuelle

pp. 63-72

in: Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José L. García, Carl Mitcham (eds), Jacques Ellul and the technological society in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstract

Jacques Ellul used to say that technology, or Technique, is intrinsically rational, but irrationalities, and sometimes devastating ones, are created when technology is in contact with realities which belong to a non-technological order. For example, when technique interferes with the natural environment it results in environmental disorganization; and when it interferes with society it results in various kinds of social, political and cultural disorganization.

Cited authors

Ellul Jacques