Way to embrace efficiency.
(Scene that caused thought: was sitting in back seat of car on my phone, an object was passed to me I immediately flashed my phone to the hand in order to illuminate it more as I grabbed it, my friend realized this and was aware of it; also, he had a lighter, and when he put it down, he scanned the car carefully and put it down exactly on top of the center compartment of the car; the most reachable area in the car for all members to be able to grab it without having to disturb each other. I thought, how disgusting, how much we are preoccupied with efficiency (for efficiency's sake). We're just homies in a car, shouldnt we be focusing on more wild shit. Then I thought, embrace the concept)
Man's technicity impulse appeared around the 16th century (technicity as the impulse to categorize and represent the world as variables or quantities that we have power over rather than accepting phenomena/objects as presenting themselves to us 'on their own terms') when rationalists like Descartes swept philosophy and we quickly developed science and then fell into the industrial revolution etc etc. It is nothing new. However the impulse is seeping from overarching collective metaphysics into smaller and smaller cracks of every day life, and as such we could be on the verge of a massive shift to the digital (apparently already occurring with screens and next some perma-backround technology like google glass in which you experience the unique objects and entanglements in the world THROUGH the pulverizing "lens" of information processing) in which these impulses find more meaning and are in a more suitable context. This impulse is a prophecy, a foreshadowing of a new realm from within our Present aged realm, where it currently (as such) exhausts itself awkwardly (anachronistically) like in the example above where the efficiency is peripheral or nihilistic to the current backdrop of meaning it finds itself in. So we take these awkwardities as an anachronistic impulse, as signs of the future rather than a misunderstanding of the present.
Here is a question: is this consistent with the marxist definition of man, in the sense that man has desires which he actualizes via his material environment, and we are going through this change now? Or is this precisely antagonistic to the marxist essence, in which we are treating some hegelian geist of efficiency as central and the material realm as a consequence of it.
(Scene that caused thought: was sitting in back seat of car on my phone, an object was passed to me I immediately flashed my phone to the hand in order to illuminate it more as I grabbed it, my friend realized this and was aware of it; also, he had a lighter, and when he put it down, he scanned the car carefully and put it down exactly on top of the center compartment of the car; the most reachable area in the car for all members to be able to grab it without having to disturb each other. I thought, how disgusting, how much we are preoccupied with efficiency (for efficiency's sake). We're just homies in a car, shouldnt we be focusing on more wild shit. Then I thought, embrace the concept)
Man's technicity impulse appeared around the 16th century (technicity as the impulse to categorize and represent the world as variables or quantities that we have power over rather than accepting phenomena/objects as presenting themselves to us 'on their own terms') when rationalists like Descartes swept philosophy and we quickly developed science and then fell into the industrial revolution etc etc. It is nothing new. However the impulse is seeping from overarching collective metaphysics into smaller and smaller cracks of every day life, and as such we could be on the verge of a massive shift to the digital (apparently already occurring with screens and next some perma-backround technology like google glass in which you experience the unique objects and entanglements in the world THROUGH the pulverizing "lens" of information processing) in which these impulses find more meaning and are in a more suitable context. This impulse is a prophecy, a foreshadowing of a new realm from within our Present aged realm, where it currently (as such) exhausts itself awkwardly (anachronistically) like in the example above where the efficiency is peripheral or nihilistic to the current backdrop of meaning it finds itself in. So we take these awkwardities as an anachronistic impulse, as signs of the future rather than a misunderstanding of the present.
Here is a question: is this consistent with the marxist definition of man, in the sense that man has desires which he actualizes via his material environment, and we are going through this change now? Or is this precisely antagonistic to the marxist essence, in which we are treating some hegelian geist of efficiency as central and the material realm as a consequence of it.
