In this performance for spoken voice, music and animation, I present the story of humanity’s changing relation with technology in mythological form, as if told in the distant future by an unknown being.  We hear how, partly due to the influence of monotheism in the West, an originary cosmotechnics organised around craft and ritual was replaced by a modern understanding of technology that combined ‘magic’ and ‘religion’: that promised to bring about specific goals in ways that affirm the regular, lawful character of the cosmos. The hope embedded in modern technology was that, just as angels extended God’s will through the cosmos, machines would be the wholly subordinated ‘extensions of man’.  However, modern technologies refuse to be contained within this cosmotechnical regime, generating various kinds of ‘techno-demonic’ phenomena that escape the human will.  This story of the destiny or twilight of the machines ends on an ambiguous note. Does machine-being have its own nature, its own destiny, that ultimately has no place for human beings? And what might an alternative cosmotechnical condition for humanity look like, one beyond monotheism and beyond machines? (Words and music by Bronislaw Szerszynski, animations by Adam York Gregory.)