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Technology as Ontology, with Michael Hanby

Beatrice Institute Podcast

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Brave New World Mustafa Monde

Mustafa Monde is still a political character in the sense that and this may be an example of the way in which Huxley is being a political character. The curious thing about life in technological society is that you see emerging forms of political agency for which it is impossible to assign political responsibility. It would be nice actually if there was one conspirator who was sort of pulling the levers of power that we could tag as the responsible agent but I don't think that's what technocracy is or how it works.

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