The Dictatorship of Technology

Abstract

Technology and totalitarianism seem to be separate domains of our contemporary world. These two categories are, however, strongly related: totalitarianism, which pertains to the essence of modernity, also has a cultural connotation that associates it with the exclusive character of technological hegemony. Technological dominance can be viewed as a special configuration of totalitarianism, the understanding of which can take us a long way toward a deeper comprehension of technology.