on the possibility of critique

The love of novelty is the modern form of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm for new technology is  its most seductive, numbing form.  The old Schwärmer sought to leap into the unconditioned.  Religious fanatics in contrast are seldom Schwärmer these days — there outlook is legalistic, fundamentalist. The technological Schwärmer is a dialectician: he starts out from the absurd detour that techne poses between himself and reality, and every innovation is gratefully received for bringing him one step closer to his goal.  Absolute spirit à crédit.  The end point: artificial intelligence, virtual reality — the world within and the world without, restored to him as the product of human imagination.

The perfect technology, the telos of all technology, is intellectual intuition.  But all existing technologies are merely reproductive, mimetic.  The desire of technology merely reproduces in a material form the paradoxical intention of  early German idealism.