Martin Heidegger
Gestell / standing-reserve (b)
Enframing Reveals nature and humanity only as Bestand awaiting optimization. Lens on the centralized power structure + Substrate-vs-Announcement.
Also in The Apex in Literature & Philosophy
Isaac AsimovPsychohistory / Foundation — the recursion (b)C.S. LewisThe Conditioners / Abolition of Man (b)J.R.R. TolkienThe Machine / the One Ring (b)Frank HerbertThe Butlerian Jihad (b)Philip K. DickThe Black Iron Prison / VALIS (b+a)Rudolf SteinerAhriman / the machine-swarm (a)Michel FoucaultBiopower / the Panopticon (b)Friedrich NietzscheThe Last Man (b)