Henning Schmidgen: Das Unbewußte Der Maschinen: Konzeptionen Des Psychischen Bei Guattari, Deleuze Und Lacan (1997) [German]
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25 Jahre nach Erscheinen des «Anti-Ödipus», jener furiosen Abrechnung mit Strukturalismus, Marxismus und Psychoanalyse à la française von Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari, sind die dereinst gefeierten oder heftig befehdeten «Wunschmaschinen» erneut Thema. Frei von Exaltationen der damaligen Rezeption, fast aufreizend nüchtern rekonstruiert Henning Schmidgen den Maschinenbegriff der Autoren, wobei er den meist vernachlässigten Guattari in den Vordergrund rückt. Das ist solide, aber bleibt thematisch eng und dürfte wohl nur Experten interessieren. Anschlüsse zur zeitgenössischen Technikphilosophie werden angedeutet, nicht ausgeführt; das gleiche gilt für Bezüge zu Heidegger oder Parallelen zu Bloch. Von grösserem Interesse ist sicher, was der Autor über die Beziehungen zwischen Guattari und Lacan zu sagen hat. Den nicht so sehr am «Anti-Ödipus» Interessierten sei der Teil über Lacan ans Herz gelegt: ein sorgfältiger Nachvollzug des von Lacan im Kontext seines Seminars über E. A. Poes «Entwendeten Brief» unternommenen Versuchs, Freuds Wiederholungszwang als Wiederholungs automatismus zu rekonstruieren. Dass es Schmidgen gelingt, Lacans Analyse der Regularitäten von Wiederholungsvorgängen mittels Symbolgruppen verständlich zu erklären, ist dem Autor hoch anzurechnen.
Publisher Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Muenchen, 1997
ISBN 3770531957, 9783770531950
188 pages
Jacques Ellul: The Technological Society (1954/1964)
Filed under book | Tags: · bourgeoisie, critique of technology, economy, fascism, machine, politics, production, propaganda, technique, technological society, technology, totalitarianism
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology–which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind–threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book.
Originally published in French as La technique ou l’enjeu du siècle by Librairie Armand Colin, 1954.
Translated by John Wilkinson
With an introduction by Robert K. Merton
Publisher Vintage Books, a divisio of Random House, New York, 1964
449 pages
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Sadie Plant: Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (1997)
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“Zeros and Ones is an intelligent, provocative and accessible investigation of the intersection between women, feminism, machines and in particular, information technology. Arguing that the computer is rewriting the old conceptions of man and his world, it suggests that the telecoms revolution is also a sexual revolution which undermines the fundamental assumptions crucial to patriarchal culture. Historical, contemporary and future developments in telecommunications and in IT are interwoven with the past, present and future of feminism, women and sexual difference, and a wealth of connections, parallels and affinities between machines and women are uncovered as a result. Challenging the belief that man was ever in control of either his own agency, the planet, or his machines, this book argues it is seriously undermined by the new scientific paradigms emergent from theories of chaos, complexity and connectionism, all of which suggest that the old distinctions between man, woman, nature and technology need to be radically reassessed.”
Publisher Fourth Estate, 1997
ISBN 1857026985, 9781857026986
305 pages
Reviews: Nina Wakeford (New Scientist, 1997), Publishers Weekly (1997), McKenzie Wark (The Australian, 1998), Gyrus (Dreamflesh, 2008), Laura Lee (n.d.), Marta I. González García (Revista del Libros, 2001, ES).
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