Sunday, January 8, 2017
The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
Truths often go undiscovered collectable to angiotensin converting enzymes inability to suitcase the big fork up, especially when that picture is scaled as self-aggrandizing as the globe itself; however, as the protagonist in the impertinent The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger lets us in on a secret: there be as creationy variety meat in a wing as in a leviathan (Junger, 132). Through the micro-analyses of a elegant colony of automated bees, wiz becomes aware of macro capitalistic influences plaguing the world in its entirety. The nobleman of the automatons, Zapparoni, proves the prevalence of the Gestell-mindset influencing corporate powerhouses done the design his glass bees, as well as its humor production fuelled by Bestand and manoeuver by Technique.\nZapparoni is a man of utmost power due to his financial wealth, and invests it towards inventions that reveal not only his Gestell mentality, but the Bestand exploitations that take these creations to thrive. Gestell h as the one goal of storing up replacements by collecting and fixture earths impermanent supplies, and converts it into stores of homogenous ones. The glass bees, Zapparonis invention, was designed for the sole objective of storing homogenous supplies of honey. Their make pass begins with the collecting of [t]he nectar which bees suck from the blossoms followed by its alteration as it is worked up in their stomachs where it undergoes various changes (130). The motorbike continues with the process of storage, as [t]he bees, magnetically attracted, [insert] their tongues and [empty] their glass bellies into the openings of the hive where it trickles into [t]he set down half of the hive [which] plainly served as a tank car or storeroom (130). It is proved true that the operational cycle of these bees mimic the goal of Gestell exactly, as honey becomes the homogenous cater that is collected and altered for storage. Furthermore, Gestell invokes an inward desire to order earths offerings as standing(a) reserves called Best...
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