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Gilbert Simondon on Technology

1924–1989 France

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The machine is a slave which serves to make other slaves. Such a domineering and enslaving drive may go together with the quest for human freedom. But it is difficult to liberate oneself by transferring slavery to other beings, men, animals, or machines; to rule over a population of machines subjecting the whole world means still to rule, and all rule implies acceptance of schemata of subjection.

Du mode d'existence des object technique (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gilbert Simondon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.