Issue 6.5: Technology

The production of technological works entails reconstructing the natural world for use against itself. Where once there was a rocky plane, now there is a walled city separating its inhabitants from the outside. Where once there were disparate natural resources, now there are machines that harness the forces of the primal world for humanity’s betterment. “Technological advance” is synonymous with “the formation of a new world order,” and humanity is this new order’s forward guard.