Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, appeared in English translation, ah, finally! this past January, 2026, seventy years after its first publication in German in 1956. Anders begins by thematizing technology. I read Anders in my 2022 Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology not only as I emphasize Martin Heidegger on technology but owing toContinue reading “Günther Anders’s ‘Promethean Disconnect’”
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Babette Babich Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #321
Reposting a blog published 2 March 2026 — unedited apart from a crucial illustration Babette Babich is an American philosopher, a founder of the New Nietzsche Studies writing on continental aesthetics, philosophy of science (Nietzsche), technology (Heidegger, Anders), critical and cultural theory. She published Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory in 2021 (Bloomsbury academic). Continue reading “Babette Babich Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #321”
Günther Anders in Rotterdam
Post-Lecture post
The revolution will be televised.
The revolution will be televised. It is already underway. Already, the first generation of the Frankfurt School, including Günther Anders as well as the more prominent and well known Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, foregrounded the role of media in all of its many guises, mostly broadcast, radio, newsreel, film, television, but alsoContinue reading “The revolution will be televised.”