Employing characterology

The rational, verifiable account of the characteristics or properties of phenomena, often with a view to exercise control over them.

In a chapter called The Characterology of Technique, Jacques Ellul describes traditional techniques as well as the characteristics of modern technique and identifies them as: (1) automatism of technical choice; (2) self-augmentation; (3) monism; (4) the necessary linking together of techniques; (5) technical universalism and (6) the autonomy of technique.

1. Classifying information

1. Preparing coastal profiles
2. Determining types of production mechanisms
3. Creating criminal stereotypes
4. Classifying species
5. Classifying cultural characteristics

1. Monitoring
2. Educating through theatre
3. Clarifying human resource requirements

1. Using mutation breeding to improve plant genetic characteristics
2. Showing character

1. Reducing use of theatre as propaganda