The opposition between technics and cul ture will last until culture discovers that each machine is not an absolute unit, but only an individualized technical reality that is open according to two paths: that of the relation to elements, and that of the inter-individual relations within the technical ensemble.
The role culture has assigned to man alongside the machine is at odds with technical reality; it assumes that the machine is substantialized, materialized, and consequently devalued; the machine is in fact less consistent and less substantial than culture assumes; it does not relate to man as a single block, but through the free plurality of its elements, or the open series of its possible relations with other machines within the technical ensemble.

Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects