L'Intelligence Artificielle, c'est la Guerre
David M. Berry "Any future war will also be a slave revolt of technology" Walter Benjamin "Instead of using and illuminating the secrets of nature via a technology mediated by the human scheme of things, the new nationalists' metaphysical abstraction of war signifies nothing other than a mystical and unmediated application of technology" Walter Benjamin In 1930, Walter Benjamin published a short review of War and Warrior , a collection of essays edited by Ernst Jünger that celebrated what its contributors called the "experience" of the First World War (Benjamin 1979). The review, Theories of German Fascism , has received less attention than Benjamin's more famous essays, yet it contains some of his most direct statements on the relationship between technological development and social catastrophe. [1] Reading it today, it is fascinating how Benjamin's critique of interwar technological mysticism anticipates many contemporary debates about arti...
