The technical hero embodies disciplined study rather than liberation

Evidence

The hero of technical civilisation is not a man unchained: he is a man of silence, who can carry his iron chains up to the heavens. He is not an ignorant fool whiling away his time: he is a man of study in the finest classical sense, in that studium used to mean ‘punta viva ’. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1130

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s toolkit on colonial psychology and selfhood — the disciplined, self-subjugating subject also appears in later Islamophobia-critical readings of the racialized worker/colonial subject.
• DEFINE: Defines the ‘hero of technical civilisation’ against the Promethean image — a key contrast Gramsci draws.