Qualitative change would catastrophically transform prevailing technical rationality

Evidence

I submit that such a new direction of technical progress would be the catastrophe of the established direction, not merely the quantitative evolution of the prevailing (scientific and technological) rationality but rather its catastrophic transformation, the emergence of a new idea of Reason, theoretical and practical. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 802

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Administered rationality works by reducing qualitative differences to commensurable equivalents. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 152; Total systems change, and human agency’s effects often subvert its intentions; Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Administered rationality works by reducing qualitative differences to commensurable equivalents. #expands (0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 152
• Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks #contradicts (0.85)
• Historical change arrives as a qualitative leap, not gradual growth #corroborates (0.85)
• Total systems change, and human agency’s effects often subvert its intentions #expands (0.80)
• Technological rule substitutes causality for choice and effaces the Other #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 623