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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.

— Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature (1955)
5d ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is in the process of reinventing us.

3w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

4w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

4w ago

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