{"id":17,"date":"2014-01-29T04:12:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:33:42","slug":"the-agent-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/the-agent-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"the agent of choice &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t &#8230; in a technological society &#8220;the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice&#8230; He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.&#8221; In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Jacques Ellul, French Critic Of Technology, Is Dead at 82\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacques Ellul<\/a>, 1964\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/79\/Jacques_Ellul%2C_1990_%28cropped%29.jpg\/330px-Jacques_Ellul%2C_1990_%28cropped%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in a technological society &#8220;the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice&#8230; He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.&#8221; In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments. Jacques Ellul, 1964<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2308,2148,13,15,3279,17],"tags":[86,4137,4138,4139,4136],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-17","7":"format-standard","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-future-of-work","10":"category-obituaries","11":"category-politics","12":"category-science","13":"category-the-anthropocene","14":"category-thinking-about","15":"post_tag-86","16":"post_tag-agent-of-choice","17":"post_tag-human-beings","18":"post_tag-instruments","19":"post_tag-technological-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}