Benjamin framed technology’s dream consciousness as serving humaneness and cultural survival

Evidence

It was an exchange of a Gartenlaube' 164 relationship to technology for a kind of dream consciousness which would take possession of technology for the sake of humanenessthe technology of those avant-garde artists in whose buildings, pictures and stories humanity was preparing itself to survive culture, if it should be necessary’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 227

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Benjamin framed drone technology as disengaging humans from technique; Benjamin framed technology as an all-or-nothing fork between salvation and catastrophe. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 221; Benjamin framed technology as either mass salvation or catastrophic regression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 826 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin framed drone technology as disengaging humans from technique; Benjamin framed technology as an all-or-nothing fork between salvation and catastrophe. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 221; Benjamin framed technology as either mass salvation or catastrophic regression — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 826 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Benjamin framed technology as either mass salvation or catastrophic regression #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 826