Analysis Of Marcuse Technology

The rapid development of contemporary science and technology has accelerated the development of the capitalist industrial society.With the constant advancement of the modernization process,people's material lives have been increasing.Technological rule has gradually controlled political rule.Assimilation has become a major trend.Therefore,the contemporary capitalist society is losing its two-sided dimension,and gradually becomes a one-dimensional society that lacks negation.In this society,both the economic system,political rule,or the development of science,art,and philosophy tend to be one-dimensional.With the same voice,similar tones,and the same dimensions,in a one-dimensional society,people lose their original creativity,leaving only the order of maintaining social form.Faced with the suppression of technical rationality and excessive false demand,Marcuse,an important representative of the Frankfurt School,started from a new perspective,trying to break the existing system and eliminate it through the exploration of the “new technology” and the means of aesthetic liberation.The alienation that comes with the instrumental rationality helps humans to achieve freedom and liberation.Marcuse believes that fundamentally loses the rationality of two-way critique,manifested in the deep theory: First,the concept is equivalent to the equivalent operation,the generality of the language loses its own negative meaning,the truth and the expressed things are also It is a direct equivalence.Second,in terms of thinking logic,it loses its formal logic inherited from ancient Greek philosophy.Instead,it replaces one-dimensional thinking logic.Third,the ideology of positivism is constrained by the reality,and will be technical politics.In order to maintain the stability of the real society.In the contemporary developed industrial society,although people's material life has reached a state of abundance,their own ideas have been suppressed and dissimilated even more severely.Comprehensive enslavement hasgradually emerged behind the veil of technological control and democratic politics.Marcuse believes that the pursuit of human nature can only be liberated through the aesthetic salvation of "new technologies."This "new technology" serves the essence and purpose of human beings.Through the combination of science,technology and art,it breaks through the domination of existing science and technology and liberates nature and human beings.Although Marcuse's critical theory of science and technology has a clear romanticism with regard to the concept of “new technology”,the exposure of contemporary developed industrial society has taken a long-term view.In general,he provided a new perspective for understanding "manipulation" and "liberation",provided a new method and framework for human analysis of contemporary society,and provided a prospect of liberation..