Julianne Chatelain on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:16:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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Great to see Sean's list of additional people to read! >Jacques Ellul. The Technoliogical Society. Save yourself the bother of >reading Foucault. Ellul scholars and freelance Ellul-fanatics are working in association - see details at www.ellul.org (francais/English) - it's "not an antiquarian society interested only in a reverent inspection of Jacques Ellul's works; it is, in the spirit of Ellul himself, a movement to encourage the extension of a serious critique of technological civilization." The site is just about to receive a thorough overhaul to remove its frames; to link to it now, use http://www.ellul.org/index.htm. If you would like to be updated when there's more available, write me (jchat at world dot std dot com). The Journal _Ellul Forum_ is so far only a print journal, but is excellent...details on the web site also. Last year I collected some of the (few!) Ellul links in English, here: http://world.std.com/~jchat/ellul/web.htm, and checking now I see that some of them are dead already, including the one with the best title: "Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Jacques Ellul"...(don't mourn too much, the title was the best part). I find Ellul worthwhile - all the terrific questions he asked ensure that his work is still valuable - but difficult to read because of his style. I recommend a rant called "Avoiding Misunderstandings Generated By Problems In Ellul's Style," which is part of the introduction to _Sources & Trajectories: Eight Early Articles_. Translation and commentary by Marva Dawn. Eerdmans, 1997. ISBN: 0802842682. Best regards, Julianne Julianne Chatelain | freelance Ellul fanatic et cetera http://world.std.com/~jchat/ | jchat at world dot std dot com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold