478 - Christian Roy - Technological Madness: The Logic of Domination

The Symbolic World by Jonathan Pageau

Sep 4, 202600:59:47Education

Christian Roy and I discuss Jacques Ellul’s theology of technique (technology) and the way modern systems turn power, efficiency, and mediation into ends in themselves. AI brings this crisis into focus, especially in our...

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