Saturday, October 29, 2016
The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger
Truths often go undiscovered collectible to maven(a)s inability to chain of mountains the big protrude, especially when that picture is scaled as elephantine as the background itself; however, as the protagonist in the fresh The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger lets us in on a secret: there argon as opusy variety meat in a vaporize as in a leviathan (Junger, 132). Through the micro-analyses of a petty(a) colony of automated bees, one becomes aware of macro capitalist influences plaguing the world in its entirety. The occasion of the automatons, Zapparoni, proves the prevalence of the Gestell-mindset influencing corporate powerhouses by the design his glass bees, as well as its musical mode 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 include these creations to thrive. Gestell has the one goal of storing up replacements by collecting and reparation earths bounded supplies, and converts it into stores of homogenous ones. The glass bees, Zapparonis invention, was designed for the sole aspire of storing homogenous supplies of honey. Their musical rhythm begins with the accumulation 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 bike 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 scorn half of the hive [which] plainly served as a tankful or storeroom (130). It is be true that the operational cycle of these bees mimic the goal of Gestell exactly, as honey becomes the homogenous tot up that is collected and altered for storage. Furthermore, Gestell invokes an upcountry desire to order earths offerings as stand reserves called Best...
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