Donald Phillip Verene: Technology

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“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 179

Nature , Future , Parting

“The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 169

“Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 169

Fools , Sense , Laughter , Dead

“No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 178