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trnscatgirls4jesus.bsky.social
I am about to become the Ted Kaczinsky version of Jacques Ellul
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
dewzs.bsky.social
Jacques Ellul, manque à cette époque !
franckt.bsky.social Franck THOMAS @franckt.bsky.social · 1d
Je trouve très inquiétant cette vénération de la technologie, de la vitesse et de la puissance de calcul. On fait les choses car on peut les faire. Il n'y a aucune conscience des impacts sur l'environnement et surtout sur l'égalité entre les humains...ceux qui maîtrisent cet IA pourront dominer
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
fionatribe.bsky.social
“As soon as a [scientific] discovery is made, an application is sought. Capital becomes interested and it enters the public domain before anyone has had a chance to reckon all the consequences."~ Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
dbcurren.bsky.social
“ It is the thinkers in that tradition— #Mumford, #Arendt, #Ellul, #McLuhan, #Postman, #Turkle, and many others—who have taught us how deeply and subtly #technology is entwined with human history, human society, and human behavior …” open.substack.com/pub/newcarto...
I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You)
The metaphors that confine us.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
real ellul hours, who up
rattatatouille.bsky.social rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 14d
"Making deals with demons" is honestly a good way to describe a huge chunk of what's going on with the right wing these days, whether you take it to mean literally or metaphorically.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14d
it remains incredibly fascinating to me how the reactionary centre wants to invent the term "woke right" to describe the demon they've made a deal with
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
aclibertaire.bsky.social
Le prix Jacques Ellul pour «La Fabrique du progrès» sera remis en présence de l'auteur lors d'une rencontre à la Station Ausone Mollat, à Bordeaux, le vendredi 31/10 de 18h à 19h30.
Diffusion en direct : www.youtube.com/LibrairieMol...

www.atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/La-fabrique-...
Photo du public de la station Ausone et la couverture du livre à côté
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
nickreeves.bsky.social
A senior member of Nigel Farage’s parliamentary group staff in Brussels, Kevin Ellul Bonici, was known for making trips to the Russian embassy in Belgium and was accused of orchestrating a smear campaign against a critic of the Kremlin.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic
Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
gordonr.ca
A joy to read - any book that includes thoughtful reflection of phronesis, of how technology affords, and retrieves the work of Winner, Ellul, and Mumford is a win! Very much a book about design, without being explicitly a “design book” (how are those values inscribed into our tech, after all?)
October 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
kurtfischer.bsky.social
Dies schrieb Jacques Ellul Anfang der 60er Jahre. Mittlerweile sind sie aufgetaucht, die Parteien, die »systematisch« Propaganda betreiben, und die »alten« Parteien bewegen sich im Vergleich dazu amateurhaft unbeholfen im digitalen Reich der unbegrenzten Propagandamöglichkeiten. 3/3
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
kurtfischer.bsky.social
Der informierte Durchschnittmensch sieht dadurch eine seltsam zusammenhanglose Welt, eine absurde Welt ohne Grund zwar, doch eine, die sich mit wahnsinniger Geschwindigkeit verändert, ohne dass man die Gründe für all diese Veränderungen erfassen könnte.« 2/2
Jacques Ellul: Propaganda. (1962)
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
kurtfischer.bsky.social
»Denn die Aktion macht die Wirkung von Propaganda unumkehrbar. Wer im Auftrag von Propaganda handelt, kann nicht mehr zurück. Jetzt ist er aufgrund seiner vergangenen Handlung gezwungen, an diese Propaganda zu glauben.« 2/2
Jacques Ellul: »Propaganda«.
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
kurtfischer.bsky.social
Zunächst wird versucht, beim Individuum konditionierte Reflexe zu erzeugen durch regelrechte Abrichtung, die im Zusammenhang mit bestimmten Wörtern, Zeichen, Symbolen und ebenso mit gewissen Personen oder Tatsachen unfehlbar bestimmte Reaktionen hervorrufen.« 2/2
Jacques Ellul: Propaganda (1962)
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
florianlouis.bsky.social
Jacques Ellul - Le Système technicien et autres essais

À paraître en février chez Bouquins
October 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
vortexegg.com
In his book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jaques Ellul predicted that this would be the necessary outcome of the development of increasingly technicized propaganda in a technological society; an arms race eventually converting all forms of politics into the production of propaganda
October 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
peterjukes.bsky.social
This is not the first time a close associate of Farage has been revealed as a Kremlin influencer. By 2018, his aide Kevin Ellul Bonici had been revealed as a Russian propagandist, and the Russian embassy visits of Arron Banks and Wigmore had been exposed by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 8/12
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
dcminx.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social 👀👇

Sharon Ellul Bonici close friend & associate of Farage. Her husband Kevin went to university in Russia,fluent Russian speaker also extremely close to NF. He was expelled from his EU position in 2015 for distributing propaganda with Russian nationals via MEPs’ cubbyholes.
October 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
joelhs.bsky.social
There really does not seem to be anything this particular thinker has to offer that Jacques Ellul did not say better and less glibly.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 28
TIL Paul Kingsnorth went from doomer environmentalist to conservative anti-vax crank
That’s far from his most controversial view. When he spoke out against the coronavirus vaccine, it was in part because he was uncertain about the science (so, he says, was his wife, Jyoti Kingsnorth, a former psychiatrist). But the vaccine mandates, and the way those mandates were approvingly covered by media outlets, were what infuriated him. “I have watched much of the political left transition openly into the authoritarian movement it probably always was, and countless ‘liberals’ campaigning against liberty,” he wrote. “As freedom after freedom has been taken away, I have watched intellectual after intellectual justify it all.” (Research shows that mask and vaccine mandates did save lives.) In another Substack post, he called the advocacy for gender transition less the “liberation of an oppressed minority than an agenda to reprogram society with an entirely new conception of the human body — and thus of nature itself.” His concern, distinct from the right’s focus on traditional gender roles, is that gender transition invites more technology — the biomedical kind. Nevertheless, some branded Kingsnorth a transphobe. Image
September 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
fascinatorfun.bsky.social
Behind a paywall but free access is you are willing to give your email. This goes back to 2003. A Christopher Booker Telegraph journalist.

He tried to fund raise for the anti EU Maltese wife, Sharon Elul-Bonici, of that Farage aide, Kevin Ellul-Bonici

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/...
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September 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
margaritamb.bsky.social
NEW PAPER!!! "Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding"

led by Susie Ellul, with Stijn Vansteelandt & John Carlin
Published in Stats in Med

Check it out 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#EpiSky #CausalSky
Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding
Observational epidemiological studies commonly seek to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. Adjustment for potential confounding bias in modern studies is challenging due to the p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
regardsprotestants.com
De l’épître de Jacques à Jacques Ellul et tant d’autres, il n’y a « rien de plus subversif que la spiritualité ».

🔷 Un article de Forum protestant 
"L’Église, ce n’est pas politique, mais c’est très subversif" 
De l’épître de Jacques à Jacques Ellul et tant d’autres, il n’y a « rien de plus subversif que la spiritualité ».
regardsprotestants.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
cosmicboy79.bsky.social
This is both beautiful and inspiring: “Jacques Ellul wanted to think out his life as well as live out his thought. Whether it concerned his religious faith or his analysis of social life, he sought to put his thought into practice by his action within society.” ellul.org/life/social-...
Social Commitments | | The International Jacques Ellul Society
ellul.org
December 31, 2024 at 2:01 PM
ethicistforhire.bsky.social
New article by me on how the philosophy of Jacques Ellul can help us to better understand AI, ChatGPT, and the Hollywood Writers Strike...
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/jacques-ellul-gertz-artificial-intelligence-AI-WGA-technology
More than Machines?
Is AI really a threat to humanity? Or is it just a tool designed to make life a little easier? The work of Jacques Ellul offers a compelling answer.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
July 27, 2023 at 2:35 PM
charissagrace15.bsky.social
ok first Ellul is his own other name...he writes in 2 distinct streams and weaves them...he'll do a book in his sphere as an "expert" in sociological issues and then write a theological counterpart on the same topic looking at it thru the eyes of his faith.

Most impt author of the 20th century IMO
December 1, 2024 at 11:22 AM
wang.social
"Technique is the complex and complete milieu in which human beings must live, and in relation to which they must define themselves. It is a universal mediator, producing a generalised mediation, totalizing and aspiring to totality.”

-- Jacque Ellul
November 4, 2024 at 12:34 AM
cosmicboy79.bsky.social
Je pense que je dois relire « La Raison d’être » de Jacques Ellul 🤔 #livres
cosmicboy79.bsky.social Cristiano Silva @cosmicboy79.bsky.social · Dec 20
I sometimes wonder what the human author of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes would think of these modern studies and techniques of “Positive Psychology” 🤔
December 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM