Cheese Danish #35

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

flaherty, playing ping-pong with dave "the world is a classroom" monroe:

> Back to Heidegger now and his changes, where later in his
> life Heidegger admitted that the concept of technology is
> much, much bigger than the way in which instruments announce
> their functions. How big is much, much bigger? Well,
> technology, Heidegger concluded, was so big that it
> circumscribed the ways in which we live, all contemporary
> ways of living and Knowing. Technology is said by Heidegger
> to enframe (Ge-stell) all of modern life. What Heidegger
> sees is that technology is so pervasive, so big and powerful
> (how many clocks have you got in your house? and  have you
> one on your person now? and ubiquitous, powerful, important,
> Big), that is relates to nature in a fundamentally different
> way, even to the point where it becomes impossible to
> consider nature outside of the bounds of this big,
> enframing, technology. 
>
> What are the implications of this? There are many, and here
> it will difficult not to oversimplify and piss some people
> off or introduce a bunch of Heidegger's terms and their 
> translations
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  here, here! right on, folks, i'm watching you ... kfl