1. artifact has become an extension of us: our bodies our homes, landscapes, assumptions
2. Machines defining our every thought and action
   1. our phyche built to mirror our environs, our environs dictate how we act and we choose to think and act in harmony with what is around us in order to survive.
      1. 99percent of our history what has been mirrored is wilderness, human and nature based community by the non-ego based mostly egalitarian existence that knew human possibility was held and governmned by nature's unfolding
      2. today, our environments are increasinly beyond human scale and sustainability. it is , both fragmented, cyber-industrial. all of which instill a certain cognition requiring us to act in a certain, disembodied way
   2. see this mirroring in our technological world
      1. though seductive as it tells us that we can be in touch and accessible to anyone anywhere. limitless possibility
         1. pain behind this seductiveness is deep into a "shared unconscious
            1. denial and deafness to the rootedness our minds and bodies expect. deaf to the lack of connection and rootedness. deaf to rampant social and phychoogical problems that result
            2. banality in accepting these effects
            3. if you use a cell phone, you think its normal if its normal, you'll use it.
            4. our very thought and act are defined by the mundaneness of wireless telephony while its inherent alienation, grandios dreams and effects are refused.
            5. "our everywhere-nowhere telephones not only symbolize our disconnection. By their existence they add to the possibility of our extinction"
            6. we fashion our dreams off of what the tv tells us instead of listening to studies and thinking for ourselves
            7. deafness to biologica effects
            8. illnesses and immunological deficiencies, deterioration, cancer, blood-brain protection
3. Machines further mind/body, human/nature separation
   1. non-visual, non-sensual, non-located voice promotes a fragmentation of consciousness
      1. promoting a heightened state of disembodiment
         1. ending in chronic dissociation between Mind and Body mirroring our separation as humans from nature
4. Machines lay based for technology-constituted state
   1. Our discourse and language removes actuality and promotes simplistic view of size and complexity
      1. skips over power relations in today's hegemonic, imperialistic, corportate economy
      2. words like "mass society", "developed world"
   2. relationship between technology and political expansionism
      1. steamboat ,guns, railroads for colonization and aggressive take over of peoples
         1. not a neautral device but becomes a weapon (Nazis)
      2. telephone serves the enchroachment of unjust political and economic system