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  • In any case I'm thinking a study of Kaczynski's life and actions together with a critique of these same responses by other theorists such as Ellul and Postman could be theologically interesting.

    Sub Ratione Dei 2008

  • I personally found 'Jesus' by reading Jacques Ellul.

    Sowell on Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Obama needs to read "Jesus & Marx: From Gospel to Ideology" by Jacques Ellul.

    Obama hosts two-day summit on nuclear security 2010

  • Mark Ellul said his eyes were drawn to Ms Fisher as she was “hyperactive” and behaving “erratically” in the moments before the clash.

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • In this respect Ellul is not an outsider but entirely typical for an approach to the philosophy of technology that has dominated the debate during the twentieth century.

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

  • During the twentieth century, this neutrality thesis met with severe critique, most prominently by Heidegger and Ellul, who have been mentioned in this context in Section 2.0, but also by philosophers from the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas).

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

  • Others—notably the French sociologist Jacques Ellul—have said much the same, in words no less dramatic.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Ellul, for example, has characterized engineers as the high priests of technology, who cherish technology but cannot steer it.

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

  • Jacques Ellul wrote a marvelous treatise on technique/technology about 50 years ago--the cult of efficiency propagated by the western world does not require conscious input from an elite class.

    Prince Street Projects doyle 2009

  • Ellul, however, does not merely give as his interpretation that technology can be the sum total of rational action, he also deplores the hold it has on modern society due to its forcing all aspects of human life within the mould of a single narrowed-down criterion of rationality: maximum efficiency.

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

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