In the thinking of Herbert Marcuse, three stages can be distinguished from the dominant interests in his production: the first deals with the history and historicity as ontological concepts; the second focuses its interest in the delimitation of the critical theory of society; and the third is an application of the theory outlined in the second stage to the critic of the advanced society. In the third stage are his most famous writings; the notions that stand out are the dimensionality and the technique and technology as a political project domain. This paper analyses aspects of the notions of technique and technology related to the second period of his production, which bear little relation to the last stage. In a paper published in 1941 (...