Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning

Abstract

Unhindered by morality, tenderness, or internal volition—that is, by any hint of personal agency—Marinetti's ideal Fascist worker could inexhaustibly build the future with the utmost efficiency. Such a mechanical being would as readily carry out the plans of Mussolini as it would those of Mother Theresa. It would do so without pausing to consider its own desires or the consequences, because it cannot care. It is the perfect slave and the perfect soldier, but the worst kind of citizen.