Jacque Ellul’s The Technological Society, originally published in 1954, has become a footnote to one of the stranger events in U.S. history. A terrorist known as the Unabomber spent almost 20 years ...

1912: French social critic Jacques Ellul is born. He will become a thoughtful skeptic who worries about the negative impact of technology on the human condition. Jacques Ellul wore many hats: ...

Big Tech’s influence on culture and society was first predicted nearly 70 years ago by French thinker Jacques Ellul. In his 1954 book, “The Technological Society,” Ellul argued that tech would have a ...

Imagine for a moment that pretty much everything you think about technology is wrong. That the devices you believed are your friends are in fact your enemies. That they are involved in a vast ...

A portrait of Jacques Ellul a French theologiansociologist amp anarchist who first became wellknown to American readers with the English publishing of his book The Technological Society in 1964 For ...

InterVarsity Press, 1984, 173 pp. Law student Jacques Ellul was 17 and indigent when he discovered Karl Marx and suddenly thought he understood everything: Why his aristocratic father was perpetually ...

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