The explanatory power of this idea is huge. Let me also add that another key concept in Severino is that technology has replaced faith and the Church as the Means of Salvation. These themes take on an unprecedented depth and appear to us for what they are: the fullest expression of the nihilism of the West.' Emanuele Severino pulls the strings of a reflection that has always constituted one of the cornerstones of his thought and that constitutes for readers an indispensable key to the interpretation of the great themes of today: telematics, mass communications, globalization, capitalism of the third millennium. Transformed from a means to an end, technology has gained dominance over the contemporary world. The individual conflicting forces within this tradition-Christianity, humanism, the Enlightenment, philosophical learning, capitalism, democracy, communism, scientific thought-have used and are using technology to make their own aims prevail over those of the antagonists. The distinctive purpose of the Western tradition is to shape the world in its image, and the chief instrument for achieving this result is technology.

'The Doom of Technology,' which appeared in 1988 at Rizzoli, is republished. To give an idea of his thinking, I copy here a translation via DeepL from the blurb of a recent reprint of his 1988 work 'The Doom of Technology' His metaphysical writings would hardly be popular among the masses, but his critique of the nihilism of the West is easily accessible to the lay reader and is of a tremendous foresight. In past years I wrote many times that I am regretful of the fact that the great Italian philosopher, Emanuele Severino, never achieved a wider audience in the English-speaking world. It goes some way, for example, toward explaining declining youth support for the print-era ideal of “freedom of speech”, and in parallel the increasing youth support for censorship. And if post-literacy is the technological and cultural water we all swim in now, this accounts for a number of emerging cultural and political phenomena. I was 18 when my household went online every generation younger than me has grown up in an increasingly digital culture. This would account for the inflection point around my generation (early 40s). UK Onward identified always-online culture as a key factor in the longing for strongman politics. Nor is this purely a case of young Right-wingers agitating for less immigration young Left-wingers are also willing to steamroller democracy. Most young Western people are more authoritarian than their elders. Notably, Onward’s data also show that after an authoritarian spike across the board, that coincided with Covid, every demographic has returned to more or less their previous dislike of strongman leadership - again, except those under 44.Īnd these trends are not just observable in Britain. On this side of the pond, research by the think tank UK Onward revealed support for democratic norms falling with every generation, but then plunging sharply among those under 44. in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.If “deep reading” produced democracy as its governing political form, what can we expect to see associated with its networked digital successor? As Garfinkle sees it, this would probably be toward “a less abstract, re-personalized form of social and political authority concentrated in a ‘great’ authoritarian leader”. exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose. UK, finance A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc. Sort, classify, class, categorize 50 51 CSAB Synonyms for obliged.Those not included in a proposition or description the remainder others.She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.poetry A short pause in reading poetry a caesura.A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair. She put the phone receiver back in its rest.

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