"Numeration is a loss of originary meaning and sight... Algebraic arithmetic, through which nature falls under systematic "instruction" and instrumentalization, is drawn into a process of transformation, which ... becomes a mere art of achieving results, through a calculating technique according to t"
"Facticity, understood as what makes possible the attempt to determine the indeterminate, forms the existential root of calculation. Calculation, the existential rooting of which is organized by facticity as an essential trait of technics -- which also makes a heritage possible, constituting from the"
"technics is a "way of revealing." Like poiesis, it brings into being what is not.... Every art is concerned with bringing something into being, and looks for technical and theoretical means of producing a thing which belongs to the category of possibility and the cause of which lies in the producer "
"The technocratic state no longer has as its aim either the encouragement of communicative action or the achievement of a critical distance toward purposive-rational action. On the contrary, it manages the dysfunctions engendered by purposive-rational action so as to reduce them and to avoid "those t"
"Technics constitutes a system to the extent that it cannot be understood as a means -- as in Saussure the evolution of language, which forms a system of extreme complexity, escapes the will of those who speak it."
"A technical system constitutes a temporal unity. It is a stabilization of technical evolution around a point of equilibrium concretized by a particular technology:"The establishment of these connections can only take place, can only become efficient, once the common level of the ensemble of techniqu"