Technique and Hyperreality: Promoting a "New and Improved" Humanity Public
Bright, Paul Thomas (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Technique and Hyperreality: Promoting a "New and Improved"
Humanity
By Thomas Bright
This paper addresses the following three questions: (1) What are
the leading characteristics of the technological society? (2) In
what sense does this form of society depend upon a propagandistic
thought form? (3) How is the individual to live within the
technological society? These questions are addressed through the
thought of Jacques Ellul and others in a struggle for a better
understanding of the modern world and the best way to live in
it.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
I. The Real and Perceived Characteristics of the Technological
Society
The Bluff……….2
Operation and Phenomenon……….3
Efficiency and Reason……….5
Autonomy and Automatism……….7
Present-Minded Necessity………..9
Lack of Awareness and Moral Judgment……….11
Avoiding Criticism……….13
Propaganda and Human Techniques……….14
Propaganda……….15
Amusement……….17
Education……….19
Conclusion..........21
II. Propaganda and Hyperreality: Imitating and Erasing the Memory
of "The Human"
The Societal Requirements for
Propaganda……….23
Propaganda……….25
Escape……….28
Hyperreality……….33
Propaganda as Hyperreality……….37
Conclusion……….41
III. A Solution of Proportionality: Hoping for the Impossible
Cassier: Form and Technology……….43
Giedion and Equipoise……….46
Ellul's Christian but Socratic
Solution……….48
Conclusion……….51
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