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February 18, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I’ve loaded excerpts from John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing”, Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” and Gary Panter’s very original “Rozztox Manifesto” to stimulate some thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. The use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: Advertising, consumer society, images, Propaganda, Publicity

the agent of choice …

January 29, 2014 by sergneri Leave a Comment

… in a technological society “the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice… He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.” In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments. Jacques Ellul, 1964

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Future of Work, Obituaries, Politics, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: 1964, agent of choice, human beings, instruments, technological society
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