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—– Original Message —–
From: “Bookwright”

> Anthony’s given up on philosophy and has found employment with the state
> department planting disinformation. Either that or he has abandoned
> Heidegger for Leo Strauss. In which case watch out for the lies coming
> thick and fast.
>
> I thought philosophers in general and Heideggerians in particular had a
> more nuanced take on technology than to equate the lack of electricity
> with barbarism.

I’ll give you a break and chalk the above philosophically simplistic
response to the fact that you’re a relatively recent addition to this list,
and therefore missed much of our discussion a few years ago about whether
the factical domination of technology cannot but manifest an ontological
sway - i.e., that even though the essence of technology is not technological
things, a preponderance of the latter is nevertheless ontologically
significant.

That takes more nuance.

> It is a sorry day for this list when the decisive word belongs to the
> Daily Mail.

or to a satellite image?

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