IV. Instrumental Reason

Rosa provides a powerful diagnosis of the pathological features of modern—including late-modern—formations. It is hard to avoid noticing, however, that his diagnosis—with its emphasis on modernity’s ubiquitous attempts at making the world engineerable, predictable, available, accessible, and disposable in all its aspects—is just another, albeit highly sophisticated and insightful, version of the well-rehearsed critique of instrumental reason.