Günther Anders's "The Obsolescence of the Human," which was finally translated into English last year, is one of the books I most often recommend these days. Robert Bellafiore has written a lucid introduction to Anders's ever more relevant thought: https://t.co/MWiwSMeq6u— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) September 10, 2026
The obsolescence of man, vol I , part 2: The world as phantom and as matrix: philosophical considerations on radio and television - Günther Anders
The first complete English translation of a remarkable 1956 essay about television from Vol. I of The Obsolescence of Man by Günther Anders, who—using phenomenological analyses, excerpts from his diaries and reflections on daily life—depicts a capitalist world that manufactures a warped “mass-man” by imposing nonparticipation, consumption of images, artificial “needs” (“drug addiction is the model for today’s needs”), separation, “conditioning”, an eternal present, commodified leisure and the dissolution of the individual in vapid mass produced roles, in a text that in many ways anticipates the theory of the “spectacle” of Guy Debord and the situationists.
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Don’t have time to read? Here’s a quick but comprehensive summary of Dan Pink’s “To Sell is Human,” released on December 31, 2012.
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari review – how data will destroy human freedom
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In conversation with Eric Ries – June 3, Marin
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
When Humans Are No Longer Born Human by Zhu Yixuan
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans w…
