counterfinality
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A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in
But at the level of technical ensembles of the activity/inertia type, contradiction is the counter-finality which develops within an ensemble, in so far as it opposes the process which produces it and in so far as it is experienced as negated exigency and as the negation of an exigency by the totalised ensemble of practico-inert Beings in the field.
Of itself, counterfinality gives rise only to necessity, and there is no guarantee that it will ever be overcome by group praxis.
The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects.
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3But at the level of technical ensembles of the activity/inertia type, contradiction is the counter-finality which develops within an ensemble, in so far as it opposes the process which produces it and
WiktionaryOf itself, counterfinality gives rise only to necessity, and there is no guarantee that it will ever be overcome by group praxis.
WiktionaryYet technology may well serve as adequate shorthand to designate that enormous properly human and anti-natural power of dead human labor stored up in our machinery—an alienated power, what Sartre call
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