Saturday, February 23, 2013

Note the very specific (and very popularly Nietzschean) “faith” in science and especially industrial, corporate, capitalist technology that has been with us since the interregnum between the two wars. That is to say, if we read Sloterdijk aright.  

Of course, and before Sloterdijk all of us should have been reading Sebald's The Natural History of Destruction.

And to be sure, Günther Anders had already analysed this in a locus safely outside of our usual purview, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
As with a little more complexity had Theodor Adorno and in a different fashion Jacques Ellul.  So too, for years now, Paul Virilio along with his colleague the late Jean Baudrillard.



But this is again and also to say that such a vision is fascist through and through. 

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