Where have all the Luddites gone? Exploring what makes us human – and whether modern technology threatens to destroy it
- Written by: Charles Barbour, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Western Sydney University
ShutterstockThe great – if sometimes overlooked – 20th-century philosopher and cultural critic Günther Anders once proposed that our modern age is characterised by a dangerous and pervasive “Apocalypse-Blindheit”: a blindness to the apocalypse.
Writing in the midst of the 20th-century nuclear arms race, he suggested an...