Review of Technology as Symptom & Dream
It’s been a while since I’ve happened across a book that so persuasively elaborated a vision of how we came to where we are as Robert D. Romanyshyn’s Technology as Symptom & Dream. It tells a story, starting with the invention of linear perspective drawing in 15th century Florence, of the reconfiguration of the Western self, where an alienated distance and an analytical gaze draw us inexorably towards space flight and the fragmentation of the world. Trailing shadows such as witchcraft, Frankenstein’s monster and the atomic bomb behind it, the modern technological project is placed in a compelling, poetic, balanced and compassionate narrative that—if you go for stuff like this—is as juicy as it gets. Read my review…
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