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Norin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Might be a matter of taste, but ISAIF is worth a read on the basis of its wild mix of sociological brilliance and unhingedness IMO. That’s not to say I endorse blowing people up in the slightest, but the work stands taller than the sum of its influences.

  E.g. I think he synthesized and added to quite a few different authors in presenting his concept of oversocialization. (Please do correct me if I’m off-base — I love philosophy but it’s not my main wheelhouse).

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  • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ISAIF?

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    • dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Industrialized Society and Its Future (name of the manifesto)

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      • three@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You enjoy doing extra work? Why not explain the gibberish acronym in the first comment?

        Oh! I’m soooo sorry! I thought everyone wrote their dissertation on Ted “My First Love” Kaczynski!

        Listen to yourself, you sound ridiculous.

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    • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s Slways Aunny in Filadelphia

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• Slovene85@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I follow the philosophy of Father Ted.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “I hear you’re an anarcho-syndicalist now, Father Ted!”

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which philosophers?

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  • Norin@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ted misses a lot in Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society, which is where I’d start off f your looking for philosophers critical of modern technology.

    If you’re curious on that particular subject, I’d also recommend Lewis Mumford’s Myth of the Machine or The City in History.

    Or, for something that’s less of a tome (both Ellul and Mumford can be overly wordy), Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality is incredibly critical of the modern world, but also offers hope that isn’t based on mailing bombs to universities.

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    • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ellul is a wonderful author, very inspiring. As someone inspired both by Christianity and anarchism, he’s one of the authors in my personal pantheon.

      Just don’t read his texts about Israel.

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    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh. I picked that up from a used book stand on a whim just based on the tile and skimming it, like ten years ago. I should probably read it.

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