Some Social Implications of Modern Technology
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FirstpubIished in Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Vol. IX (1941), thearticle is a large-scale investigation of that "fetish "of technique, ortechnical efficiency, which, after 1941, represented for critical theory, especially for Marcuse, the key ideological replacement of the commodity fetish under modern industralized authoritarian states. With respect to Marcuse's better-known later position, the essay incorporates two anomalous attitudes: the ultimate political neutrality of technique as such (even the existing technologies) and thepossibility ofprogressive utilization of techniques (even bureaucratic ones) through democratic reform. Nevertheless, Marcuse, in an extremely clear fashion, specifies all those dimensions of technical reason open to repressive and ideological utilization in rhe hands of authoritarian regimes.
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