La fin des moyens

How can ethics and techniques be compared other than by adding moral concerns to objects defined only in terms of their utility and functionality? The author suggests a dual transformation which reveals the "mode of existence" peculiar to technicity and recognizes morality as a way of understanding things. With the former, technicity can be defined in the process of folding, delegation and dislocation of space and time, through which techniques can be understood as a particular form of exploration of the world. The concept of a means, utensil or tool is ill-suited to an understanding of techniques. This reformulation gives morality an entirely different relationship with techniques.Latour Bruno. La fin des moyens. In: Réseaux, volume 18, n°100, 2000. Communiquer à l'ère des réseaux. pp. 39-58