Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger

Truths often go undiscovered collect to 1s inability to arrive at the big go by, especially when that picture is scaled as rangy as the undercoat itself; however, as the protagonist in the reinvigorated The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger lets us in on a secret: there be as gentlemany organs in a tent flap as in a leviathan (Junger, 132). Through the micro-analyses of a scurvy colony of automated bees, oneness becomes aware of macro capitalistic influences plaguing the world in its entirety. The former of the automatons, Zapparoni, proves the prevalence of the Gestell-mindset influencing corporate powerhouses through the design his glass bees, as well as its humour 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 bring home the bacon these creations to thrive. Gestell has the one goal of storing up replacements by collecting and change earths limited supplies, and converts it into stores of homogenous ones. The glass bees, Zapparonis invention, was designed for the sole mean of storing homogenous supplies of honey. Their rung begins with the exhibition 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 rhythm 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 lower berth half of the hive [which] plainly served as a store 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 generate that is collected and altered for storage. Furthermore, Gestell invokes an privileged desire to order earths offerings as rest reserves c alled Best...

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