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February 17, 2021

Between Order and Disorder: Ernst Jünger on the Marble Cliffs

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February 17, 2021

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17February

(From VoegelinView, 16 Feb 2021)  There are several examples that help us grasping that particular zeitgeist lived in the first half of the 20th century. A book such as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain gives us a description of the moral and spiritual decomposition of the then bourgeois society. At this time, in the bashed and defeated post-war Germany, nihilism had turned to be a dominant moral...

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October 28, 2019

Una Domanda su Jünger – Luca Siniscalco e Andrea Scarabelli

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October 28, 2019

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28October

CONVERSAZIONI 2019 – GLI GRANDI INTERROGATIVI  dell’Associazione Eumeswil Firenze:

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November 13, 2017

“Technikutopie und Technikkritik bei den Brüdern Jünger”: Tagungsprogramm 2018, Ernst und F.G. Jünger Gesellschaft

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November 13, 2017

13November

Kloster Heiligkreuztal, 23–25 März 2018 ** Information und Anmeldung: Ernst und Friedrich Georg Jünger-Gesellschaft. Oder direkt per E-Mail an Hans-Peter Oberle Freitag, 23 März 2018 20:00 – Eröffnung des Symposiums – Alexander Pschera und Thomas Bantle 20:15 – Die Philosophie der Technik in den 20er und 30er Jahren und Jüngers Arbeiter – Alexander Michailowski 21:30...

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May 17, 2016

CONFERENZA: Ernst Jünger tra censura e tecnica

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May 17, 2016

17May

Cari soci e simpatizzanti, siamo lieti di invitarVi ad un incontro dal titolo generale: ERNST JÜNGER – TRA CENSURA E TECNICA Sabato 21 maggio, ore 17 Hotel Croce di Malta Via della Scala 7, Firenze www.eumeswil.cc RelatorI: Valentina Menesatti e Pietro Piro. Pierluigi Moressa al termine ci leggerà pagine tratte da Sulle scogliere di marmo di Ernst Jünger. Nel corso dell’ incontro si...

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November 26, 2014

iPhone4 or iPhonophore?

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November 26, 2014

26November

It was not Steve Jobs and Apple who invented the iPhone4 – they only gave birth to what Ernst Jünger had intellectually conceived in 1949 in the novel Heliopolis and continued into Eumeswil (1977). By a nice coincidence, Ernst Jünger’s “universal communicator” has essentially the same name – the phonophore. Below is a rough translation of the most relevant passage...

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November 18, 2012

FG Jünger’s “The Failure of Technology: as ebook!

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November 18, 2012

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18November

A fantastic recent find, which I trust readers will appreciate and help spread the word – an ebook of this classic and essential critique of modern “scientism” and technology, which has been out-of-print and virtually unfindable in English since the 1960’s! It was translated in 1950 from the German original: “Die Perfektion der Technik” – which, btw, in...

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May 6, 2012

Francois Mitterand to Ernst Jünger on his 100th birthday – 1995

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May 6, 2012

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“Here is a man who is free.  Embroiled to the point of risking his life in the turmoil of the century, he held himself apart from his passions. Nothing can appropriate his name, nor his gaze, except perhaps that butterfly in Pakistan now called “Trachydura Jüngeri”, which is his pride. Because this rebel chases glow-worms, this soldier writes novels. A philosopher, he...

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February 20, 2012

Concordia, Concorde, Titanic – Cassandra’s warnings

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February 20, 2012

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20February

UPDATE 20.02.2012: as the anonymous commentator below says, with the wreck of the Concordia, Cassandra may be reminding us in a whisper of what she shouted out 100 years ago with the Titanic, and, less obviously, with the Concorde disaster. But what else should we expect in our titanic world: for as much rhetoric about peace and harmony as there is today, titans are by their very nature not a...

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October 18, 2011

Ernst Jünger: Pionier der Entschleunigung

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October 18, 2011

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Wieder einmal muss ich mich bei Tobias Wimbauer bedanken für den Hinweis auf diesen Artikel aus “Jungen Freiheit”: JF, 2/11 / 14. Oktober 2011 Der konservative Pionier der Entschleunigung Der Germanist Jan Robert Weber hat sich in seiner Dissertation der umfangreichen Reiseliteratur des „Jahrhundertmenschen“ Ernst Jünger gewidmet und entdeckt unerwartete Kleinodien. Michael Böhm...

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August 17, 2011

“Die Perfektion der Technik” von Friedrich Georg Jünger. Neuauflage bei Klostermann

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August 17, 2011

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UPDATE AUG 17/11  The republication mentioned below back in January of “The Failure of Technology”, the English translation of F.G.Jünger’s “Die Perfektion der Technik”, is apparently not going to happen.  So, until someone does republish it, I feel little guilt in publicizing this downloadable scanned version I found on the web in Google Documents. It is...

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July 21, 2011

Titanism 101

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July 21, 2011

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21July

The titanic orientation of our contemporary humanity is a theme continually referred to and explained by Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg. It might be useful to readers to have their vision applied in simple form to a few concrete aspects of our modern world. According to one interpretation, the etymology of the ancient Greek word “titan” expresses the notion of an...

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February 19, 2011

Stuxnet – aka Glass Bees

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February 19, 2011

19February

Other commentators have already speculated on the analogies between Jünger’s vision of Zapparoni’s technology in the “Glass Bees” with our internet. They have been rather vague allusions; now with the Stuxnet affair I get a chance to be more specific about one particular materialization in our world of Jünger’s “glass bees”: as computer viruses, trojans...

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December 24, 2010

Wie Ernst Jünger erst das iPhone erfand – How Ernst Jünger invented the iPhone

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December 24, 2010

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24December

Wer schon Heliopolis gelesen hat, dem wird dieser Vortrag keine Offenbarung darstellen. Der weißt schon, daß in diesem futuristichen 1949 Roman ein Gerät, das sogenannte Phonophore, das genau wie ein Smartphone funktioniert, als Accessoire jedes Bürger erscheint. Nachdem der Sprecher Jüngers Vision bestätigt hat, sieht er sich leider dazu gezwungen – vielleicht weil es schliesslich der...

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June 1, 2010

BP oil spill – the elements unleashed and running riot

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June 1, 2010

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01June

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reminded me of a chapter in Friedrich Georg Jünger’s “The Failure of Technology – Perfection without Purpose”, which I have reproduced almost completely below. I hope it may help intelligent readers who want to go deeper in understanding what has happened than is given them in the typical media or environmental analysis. In fact, I...

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May 17, 2010

Technology, principles and sustainability

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May 17, 2010

17May

This blog entry regarding the importance of restraining principles in the exploitation of technology may seem to have little to do with the anarch or Ernst Jünger, however it did emerge from a discussion of whether Jacques Allul was an anarchist or something other. Hence I include it. (I can only imagine Ernst Jünger would agree with Allul’s ideas, since they correspond closely to his...

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