Скачать или смотреть Jacques Ellul - The Technological Order (1962)

This is the best short summary of what Ellul calls Technique and which he elaborated in greater detail in La Technique (1954), translated into English as The Technological Society.

"Technique has become the new and specific milieu in which man is required to exist, one which has supplanted the old milieu, viz., that of nature. This new technological milieu has the following characteristics:

a. It is artificial;
b. It is autonomous with respect of values, ideas, and the state;
c. It is self-determining in a closed circle. Like nature, it is a closed organization which permits it to be self-determinative independently of all human intervention;
d. It grows according to a process which is causal but not directed to ends;
e. It is formed by an accumulation of means which have established primacy over ends;
f. All its parts are mutually implicated to such a degree that it is impossible to separate them or to settle any technical problem in isolation. [...]"