Sentence:  The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its <WSD>technicity</WSD> (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and "things." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole.