1The topic I wish to develop in this essay concerns the nexus between technology, violence and writing1. My analysis will be structured in five scansions. The first will concentrate on the essence of technology, defined as recording. The second will examine the effects of technology, which I propose to recognize in mobilization. The third concentrates on the meaning of technology, which I propose to recognize in a revelation. The fourth and fifth scansions, which aim to demonstrate how the actions of technology, and especially its fundamental resource, recording, are at the basis of spiritually relevant achievements, such as authenticity and responsibility.

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2Thus the first scansion: recording is the essence of technology. My point is simply this. We are mistaken in thinking of technology as something that manufactures rotating spits, alarm clocks or computers as we know them today. Or rather, it is true that in each of these apparatuses, with a degree of increasing com