failure of technology
Subtitle: Perfection Without Purpose
By: by Freidrich Georg Juenger.
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company
Published: 1949
Place of publication: H. Regnery
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Technology -- Philosophy
First sentence: Stories of mechanical utopias, as a glance at literature shows, are far from rare; on the contrary, there are so many of them and they find the readers so readily that one is justified in assuming a general need for literature of this sort.
Description: The Failure of technology was written during a few short months in the spring and early summer of 1939.  For this reason, it seems to have the freshness and intensity of an improvisation.  But the reader will sense that it was the foreboding of impending disaster rather than the happiness of a strong inspiration which drove on the author.  He knew he had to use the short time left before the storm finally broke.  Thus it mattered little to him, one it was written, that the manuscript had to be hidden from those heedless slaves of soulless materialism, the Nazis, and could only see the light of day six years after it was written.
Table of contents: title: The Literature of a Danger Zone
pagenum: 1
class: chapter
label: I; label: II
pagenum: 5
title: The Delusion of the SAving of Labor; label: III
pagenum: 9
title: The Delusion of Wealth; title: The Distribution of Poverty
pagenum: 14
label: IV; title: The Pillage of the Earth
pagenum: 18
label: V; title: Technology versus the Profit Motive
pagenum: 26
label: VI; label: VII
pagenum: 30
title: The Invasion of Life by the Automaton; title: The Invasion of Life by Dead Time
pagenum: 34
label: VIII; title: The Tyranny of Causalism over Man
pagenum: 39
label: IX; title: The Victory of Dead Time over Life Time
pagenum: 42
label: X; label: XI
pagenum: 46
title: The Myth of Exact science; label: XII
pagenum: 51
title: The Perversion of Freedom; label: XIII
pagenum: 57
title: Socialism as the surrender to Technology; title: Technology Serves Not Mankind, but Itself
pagenum: 62
label: XIV; label: XV
pagenum: 66
title: The Fallacy of Specialist Thought; title: Technology Creates Bureaucracy
pagenum: 70
label: XVI; label: XVII
pagenum: 74
title: The Ravages of Functionalism; label: XVIII
pagenum: 79
title: Technology's Attack upon Law and Property; label: XIX
pagenum: 84
title: The Subjugation of Science; label: XX
pagenum: 88
title: The Destruction of Money; title: Technical Training verses Education
pagenum: 91
label: XXI; label: XXII
pagenum: 94
title: "Scientific" Nutrition -- a Fraud; label: XXIII
pagenum: 97
title: Technology Usurps the State; title: The Disintegration of Nature by Scientific Thought
pagenum: 97
label: XXIV; label: XXV
pagenum: 107
title: Functionalism versus Vitality; title: The Vengeance of the Fettered Elements
pagenum: 112
label: XXVI; label: XXVII
pagenum: 121
title: The Immaturity of Technological Perfection; title: Technology Prepares for the Invasion of Ideologies
pagenum: 125
label: XXVIII; title: The Mirage of Socialism
pagenum: 132
label: XXIX; title: Self-Deception by Photography
pagenum: 138
label: XXX; label: XXXI
pagenum: 141
title: The Stampeding of the Masses; label: XXXII
pagenum: 146
title: Masses and Imperialism; label: XXXIII
pagenum: 150
title: The MEchanical Sterility of Modern Sports; label: XXXIV
pagenum: 155
title: Synthetic Emotions by Synthetic Amusements; title: The Modern Longing for Vitality and Devitalization
pagenum: 159
label: XXXV; title: Technology and War
pagenum: 162
label: XXXVI; title: The Self-frustration of Social Security
pagenum: 169
label: XXXVII; label: XXXVIII
pagenum: 173
title: The Downfall of the Mechanized State