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For us, technology is what nature was too many generations of our ancestors.

Consequently, everything outside of technique is rendered invisible by its ceasing, to be a matter of care, concern, and potential engagement to us.

“[Human] essence is not efficiency, like that of technique, but something qualitatively different, and thus they remain fundamentally unsynthesizable aspects within technique."

On Ellul’s “technique”

“The artificiality of technique, when proliferated …, makes the world feel… foreign.”

Our contemporary cosmic imaginary cannot be adequately described without unimagining it. This is because, as Charles Taylor argues, our identity as modern implies the self-perception of " having overcome a previous condition."

“What does modern technoculture… explicitly and tacitly suggest to us concerning what it means for a thing… to be real? I argue that this attunes us to interpret the world in terms of materiality and manipulability.”

“If one believes that God's existence is rationally necessary (as I do), then the question is really a matter of how inferior ideas had so much influence, how our felt sense of things shifted away from what our mind knows to be reality…”

“Taylor focuses on the moment in European consciousness when it was possible to live entirely within what he terms the "immanent frame" and (more importantly) when religion became a threat to fulfiled moral life in that dimension."

“Why did it become possible to live entirely within the immanent frame? What transitions made this possible?”