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Abstract
This paper examines the convergence between Jacques Ellul and Günther Anders in their diagnosis of modern technics as an autonomous and totalizing order. Ellul describes the rise of a systemic, self-regulating technical milieu that reorganizes perception, social structures and political action according to the logic of efficiency. Anders, through the concepts of “Promethean shame” and the “Megamachine,” interprets the human being as increasingly obsolete in comparison with perfected technical apparatuses. Both authors anticipate today’s debates on automation, algorithmic governance, surveillance and human enhancement, highlighting the growing disproportion between technical power and moral or imaginative capacity. Their analyses nonetheless show structural limits, particularly the risk of attributing agency to technics itself and underestimating alternative cosmotechnical models. The article argues that philosophy can still provide a symbolic resistance, restoring measure and responsibility within the technological condition.