Philosophy of the Machine 3

This chapter goes back to the beginning of the machine concept,
or more precisely: it makes clear that the Greek deus ex machina
is based on an even older understanding of the machine, deeply
interwoven with magical ideas.


Could it be in the stage production of the godhead that the
numinous passes over to the Machine? And the other way around: Is
it possible that the godhead originates from the Machine? But
then the godhead would be a product of the Machine. Basically,
both are absurdities: the deified Machine, the reified god.


To listen to the previous chapters:


Philosophy of the Machine 1


Philosophy of the Machine 2


From: The Philosophy of the Machine (Translated by Hopkins
Stanley & Martin Burckhardt - to be published)


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