How our cell phones became subjects rather than objects

 French philosopher Jacques Derrida suggests that our everyday experience of technoscience takes on an increasingly mystical quality as the technological and scientific systems we inhabit and navigate reach a scale and complexity that would set those systems beyond our actual comprehension and control.
 In making use of those systems, then, modernity and the mystical we inevitably exercise a kind of faith or trust in powers for which we cannot account in terms of our own knowledge or reasoning.
So our beloved cell phones morph into the mystical.

Some elucidate both the ways in which they (cell phones/technology allow “subjectivity” to extend itself by means of “objective” devices and the ways in which seemingly “objective” devices come to act or even to think more and more like “subjects

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