Technology Surrounds Life:Marcuse and Foucault's Critique of Technopolitics
Marcuse and Foucault point out that the domination of capitalism is neither simply the control of human concepts and consciousness through false ideas,nor does it simply rely on law and violence to maintain its domination,but rather it constructs its efficient domination by virtue of technology.The various technologized political mechanisms devised by capitalism do not negate or exclude each other;but they possess their own unique procedures and strategies.In a way that is interlinked and mutually sup-portive,they ultimately realize the total surrounding of life.Therefore,the entire course of life enters into the political and eco-nomic structures constructed by technology and becomes a resource that can be managed,produced and equipped.In response to the present scenario where subjective life is shaped and manipulated by technology,Marcuse and Foucault argue that actively ex-ploring a form of subjectivity that transcends the shaping of capitalist technological practices is the true way out of capitalist techno-logical control.Marcuse attempts to develop a radical,non-conformist political practice to shatter the grip of capitalist technology over human beings,while Foucault breaks through the domination of technology over the life of the subject through resistant struggle and aesthetics of existence.
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