Human Technique

1
Human Technique

• Last of the techniques to appear
• Work now implies absence when previously it
  implied presence
• Man is now merely an object
• Technique brings its own ideology to humanity
• Milieu belongs to the machine, not to man
• Machine multiplied the senses of man
• Machine transformed all areas of life

2
Motion

• Is no longer a movement but a point
• No longer a series of acts but a curve with a
  projected trajectory
• Technical analysis making motion efficient
• Less arbitrary use of machines
• Prime objective of human sciences Assimilation

3
Process of Massification

• Disequilibrium between tradition and new
• Criterion now causes anxiety and insecurity which
  are characteristics of our epoch
• Human techniques
• Demands are made of man
• Modification of human environment
• Alteration of social structures

4
Research Directions

• Making interests of man and technique correspond
• Takes human nature into account to foresee crush
  of human beneath technique
• Grand design of human techniques is to make man
  the center of all techniques
• Most important mans needs must be taken into
  consideration in the technical apparatus
• Human technique is not humanism

5
Transition of Art to Technique

• Sate of mind of those using technique must change
• Extensive application of mathematics
• Appearance of technical/experimental state of
  mind
• Technique cannot be experimented on human
• Whole society is too complicated for that

6
Education and Technique

• Progressive Education Montessori example of new
  technique
• Must be implemented by state to achieve
  massification and efficiency
• Forced orientation
• Conformity and adaptability of child necessary
• Key to this technique is adaptation
• Educational goal is creation of technicians not
  creation of humans
• Life is technical, therefore, education must be
  technical

7
Work Technique

• The happy worker is the more productive worker
• Advantages for production are parallel to
  advantages for the individual
• Problem exists in socialism and capitalism
• Human Relations
• Must be restricted to technical demands of their
  vocational goals
• Must be universal
• Must be rational
• Must be impersonal
• This alleviates the human condition by forcing
  submission
• Result is again technical Organization and
  efficiency

8
Vocational Guidance

• Tests to prove your compatibility to particular
  occupations
• Issue becomes The adaptation of man to technique
  is again depriving man of freedom and
  responsibility making him a thing not a human