[D66] Hermeneutical Death: The Technological Destruction of Subjectivity

[René Oudeweg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Tw_Fqbq3I


Although the only acceptable criticism of Modern Technology is the 
Frankfurt School cliché that it makes the subject “too big” by allowing 
it to dominate the entire cosmos with instrumental reason, Haag argues 
that this academic industry caricature actually gets the problem exactly 
backwards. Because the self-moving simulation eventually squeezes out 
the possibility of interpretation, technology causes the subject to 
disappear through a paradoxical excess rather than lack of sensory 
stimulation. Through an in-depth analysis of all six somatic contexts, 
Haag reveals that Modern Technology is not just another Soma because it 
somehow oversteps its own hermeneutical limits to become something other 
than a counter sense object based on fossil fuels. Detailed readings of 
the greatest anti-technological thinkers Ted Kaczynski, Jacques Ellul, 
Julius Evola, Pentti Linkola, John Michael Greer, Martin Heidegger, 
Michael Ruppert, and John Zerzan reveal that Gadamer’s false dichotomy 
between sensation and language misses the point that it is precisely 
Technique’s excessive linguistic clarity which destroys the horizon of 
ecological hermeneutics. Meditations on the forbidden thinkers Sayyid 
Qutb, Ted Bundy, David Icke, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and René Guénon reveal 
that the Power Leaked collective racks up nominally-massive 
accomplishments but only at the cost of degrading the individual to 
nothing except a cog in the System with no agency beyond feeling 
sensations and obeying mandates. Critiques of Social Justice Politics, 
as well as prominent technophiles like Ray Kurzweil, Mark Zuckerberg, 
and Anita Sarkeesian, expose the contradictions inherent in 
technological apologetics, while readings of pop culture phenomena like 
Star Trek, Death Note, and Marvel Comics reveal the unspeakable truth 
about our own technological society.


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