The World-Machine Theory, or the Retreat of the Gods

How Do We Rekindle Ourselves?

The belief in technology is not a belief but rather the abandonment of belief. Notice that this humanized design resembles an eye, but it is a blind one.

German philosopher Martin Heidegger and others warned of the “Entzäuberung” of the world, i.e., its disenchantment. A world without magic is our technological world. In technology, these thinkers recogn…