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The Failure of Technology

Friedrich George Jünger (1898-1977) The Failure of Technology 1946 Friedrich Georg Jünger’s ambitious essay Die Perfektion der Technik (written in 1939, but first published only after the war in 1946) is a classic of cultural criticism that has anticipated the modern debate on ecology and sustainability beyond all ideologies. Jünger’s book was rightly granted equal status with other contemporaneous work of considerable influence, such as the Dialektik der Aufklärung (“The Dialectics of Enlightenment”) by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno and Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (“The Outdatedness of Human Beings”) by Günther Anders. Ecology and environmental protection became “left-wing” topics in the 1970s, and though Jünger’s book still acted on its readers, it gradually fell out of favor with a broader public. Content Introduction p. 5 I - The Literature of a Danger Zone p. 8 II - The Delusion of the Saving of Labor p. 9 III - The Delusion of Wealth p. 10 IV - The Distribution of Poverty p. 11 V - The Pillage of the Earth p. 12 VI - Technology versus the Profit Motive p. 14 VII - The Invasion of Life by Automatons p. 15 VIII - The Invasion of Life by Dead Time p. 16 IX - The Tyran

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