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[...] He uses the metaphor of "mechanical petrifaction" to convey the sense that by instrumentalizing our actions in the pursuit of efficiency we have effectively deprived ourselves of any reason for acting in the first place. Weber's thesis is that modernity is the cultural experience of abstracti…

the interpretation of a technology is a matter of hermeneutics--we have to find out what the technology means to its users if we are to understand it