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

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In einer eMail vom 23.05.2004 11:22:26 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de:


> >
> > In his early philosophy ("Sein and Zeit") Heidegger uses the word "Zeug" 
> > (stuff, things), but "Zeug" has also a pejorative meaning in German, like 
> in 
> > "dummes Zeug" (rubbish); it can also mean waste, trash, useless things. 
> Later 
> > Heidegger used "Gestell" instead of "Zeug". For me "Gestell" sounds more 
> neutral, 
> > it means the world of the artificial things, but in the context of 
> Heidegger's 
> > philosophy it sounds as pejorative as "Zeug".
> > 
> > Kurt-Werner Poertner.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> * Neither "Zeug" nor "Gestell" do refer to the material objects as such.
> In both cases we have kinda early form of the actor/network-theory à la
> Bruno Latour. So it's about socio-technical networks. In "Sein und Zeit"
> [1927: cf. § 15], where the carpenter's hammer gives the paradigmatic 
> example,
> the Zen master from the Black Forest writes: "ONE stuff [ready at hand = 
> "zuhandenes Zeug"] actually never simply 'is'. To the being of stuff ready 
> at hand essentially belongs a totality of stuff where inside it can become 
> the 
> stuff at hand it actually is." In the later writings - this has to do with
> Heidegger's "Kehre" as much as it has to do with Hiroshima - the same thought
> is expressed on the macro-level of globalized technology: "Ge-stell means the
> way of 'revelation-processing' [= Entbergen] that's dwelling in modern
> technology, YET IT IS NOT SOMETHING TECHNICAL ITSELF" (Die Technik und die 
> Kehre, 20). The ruling of the Ge-stell (Right, Umberto, the German word has 
> no 
> immediate connotation of screen-frame) becomes obvious with the rise of 
> speed, 
> the digital instrumentalization of language, or the danger of nuclear 
> extinction (cf. Unterwegs zur Sprache: 165, 190, 263). For Heidegger 
> nowadays 
> deadly cybernetics do inherit the ambivalence of the decaying metaphysical
> tradition. In this context, it's important to note that Heidegger is no 
> naive 
> luddite but shaking us to wake up and see what's at the stake. Or, with
> Hölderlin whom Heidegger is quoting here:  "Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst/
> Das Rettende auch." Where danger becomes actual,
> the rescueing also grows -- 
> 
> KFL +          
> 
> 

Okay, would you agree that there are parallels to the term "instrumental 
reason" how the Cricital Theory described it, or Herbert Marcuse in the 
"One-Dimensional Man"? For me especially Marcuse is standing in the tradition of 
Heidegger in this point... and of course Guenther Anders ("Die Antiquiertheit des 
Menschen" - "The antiquated man", written in the fifties)... 
kwp
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