The significance of
Wiertz's article appearing in a publication entitled "The Nation" is that forms of sovereignty are implicated or produced by technology: it is no longer the
age of bricks, but of iron. One comes away with a sense of how far technology
has outstripped humanity's capacity to comprehend it. Indeed Wiertz is only
"rendering" a certain teleology of the artisanal and of technology,
and here he very much seems the inaccurate "bricklayer," attempting
to be the "architect" and thinker but truly applying himself to
"the material part only" since his characterization of technology's
progress is so rooted in traditional values and far removed from the implications of technological dominance.
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