GR translation: their own pitiable contingency here, in its midst

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> If both the people launching the rockets and those being targeted by them are victims
of pure chance, then who or what, if anything, is controlling the rockets? <

I'd say it's --- the Gestell (enframing).

> ... In defining the essence of technology as Gestell, Heidegger indicated that all that has come to presence in the world has been enframed. Thus what is revealed in the world, what has shown itself as itself (the truth of itself) required first an Enframing, literally a way to exist in the world, to be able to be seen and understood. Concerning the essence of technology and how we see things in our technological age, the world has been framed as the "standing-reserve." Heidegger writes,

Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing which holds sway in the essence of modern technology and which is itself nothing technological.

Furthermore, Heidegger uses the word in a way that is uncommon by giving Gestell an active role. In ordinary usage the word would signify simply a display apparatus of some sort, like a book rack, or picture frame; but for Heidegger, Gestell is literally a challenging forth, or performative "gathering together", for the purpose of revealing or presentation ... <

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
http://www.psyp.org/question_concerning_technology.pdf

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Am 07.05.2017 um 01:50 schrieb jody boy:

 Pitiable contingency is one of three qualities that together define
their existence,
here, along with the War and the "absolute rule of chance." There would seem to
be an ironic connection between their condition and our narrator's
suggestion, not
sure where in the text, that we, too, "will want cause and effect" the
absolute lack
of which is as terrifying as its opposite- everything being caught in
a causal web of
connection. Of course, causality and contingency are not mutually exclusive, but
in a universe ruled by absolute chance, causality is ultimately meaningless. Not
that meaninglessness is such a bad thing...

Ironic, too, in the sense of Roger Mexico's suggestion that Pointsman's focus on
causality in his zeal to unravel the connection between Slothrop's map
and the V2
strikes in London, is outdated, and that he needs to move beyond cause
and effect
in order to come to terms with the two distinct yet complementary phenomenon.

If both the people launching the rockets and those being targeted by
them are victims
of pure chance, then who or what, if anything, is controlling the
rockets? Which leads us
back to the consequences of Slothrop's conditioning forming an
?unintended? connection
between cause and effect.

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com><mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:


V96.5-16, P97.40-98.10   How seriously is she playing? In a conquered
country, one’s own occupied country, it’s better, she believes, to
enter into some formal, rationalized version of what, outside,
proceeds without form or decent limit day and night, the summary
executions, the roustings, beatings, subterfuge, paranoia, shame . . .
though it is never discussed among them openly, it would seem Katje,
Gottfried, and Captain Blicero have agreed that this Northern and
ancient form, one they all know and are comfortable with—the strayed
children, the wood-wife in the edible house, the captivity, the
fattening, the Oven—shall be their preserving routine, their shelter,
against what outside none of them can bear—the War, the absolute rule
of chance, their own pitiable contingency here, in its midst. . . .

What does "contingency" mean here?
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