It was common in the old days to view nature as something external to man. The Enlightenment project was the realization of human ambition to rule nature, to make nature something of culture, and it managed to do so as well.
The post enlightenment movements treated nature as dominated, with one of its peak expression taking form in modernism, in which the duality of culture (man) / nature dominated.
The creation of technology and tools in general (language being one of them), have to do with control, they allow control of the environment, they allow people to collaborate and transform, to make everything non-human more human.
We notice with the rise of human nature-domination that other forces beyond human control started being visible, started dominating man.
Some of these forces are the tools we make ourselves : logic, tech, language, history or : the power of narrative and words, ideologic – these rules us, dictate our lives, have form of their own, have certain movements, beyond the control of one person or a group of people.
While our epoch is considered the anthropocene do we dominate our ideas or our idea dominate us ? To say we have significantly altered the atmosphere, climate, oceans, ecosystems, and geology through things like industrialisation, large-scale agriculture, resource extraction, and pollution.