Tag: Friedrich Georg Junger
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Clarification
I got a bit lost in my explorations in the previous post and feel like I didn’t fully explain what Jünger was getting at with his talk of automatons. The point is that in sin, in vice, man illegitimately subordinates the higher to the lower, disrupts the cosmic order. We desire some thing, some good which…
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Why We Fight
Before continuing my now-continuously delayed exploration of The Failure of Technology, I wanted to take a moment to delve into the quote from Ernst Jünger I cited in the last post: During World War I we confronted the question of whether man was more powerful than machines. In the meantime, things have gotten more complex. We…
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The Failure of Technology, Pt. 1
The original German title is Die Perfektion der Technik, or The Perfection of Technology. “Perfection” here carries with it the sense of “fulfillment,” without the positive connotations we associate with the perfection in English, hence why the translator substituted failure. And failure is justified because, Jünger argues, it is in its perfection that technology fails, though…
Dan Yingst 