VLVL2 (15): A Frame around 'Em ...

[monroe at mpm.edu]

Sorry, that last one went out incomplete ...

Heidegger, Martin.  "The Question Concerning
   Technology."  The Question Concerning
   Technology and Other Essays.  Trans. 
   William Lovitt.  New York: Harper & Row,
   1977.  3-35

http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0061319694

http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0061319694

   "We now name that challenging claim which gathers man thither to order
the self-revealing as standing-reserve: 'ge-stell' (enframing). We dare to
use this word in a sense that has been thoroughly unfamiliar up to now.
According to ordinary usage, the word Gestell (frame) means some kind of
apparatus, e.g., a bookrack. Gestell is also the name for a skeleton. And
the employment of the word Gestell (enframing) that is now required of us
seems equally eerie, not to speak of the arbitrariness with which words of a
mature language are so misused.
   "Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon that sets
man upon man, i.e., challenges him to bring forth, to reveal the real, in
the mode of ordering, as standing reserve. Enframing means that way of
revealing that holds sway in the essence of modern technology and that it is
itself nothing technological...." (p. 19)

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~xinwei/classes/readings/Heidegger/heidegger_techq
uestion2.pdf