Barret on Heidegger on Technology:
“The word “object” is itself instructive here: it is from
the Latin ob-jectum, that which is thrown
or put before – hence, an obstacle that has to be conquered, manipulated, transformed.
Man masters beings, but Being – the open region in which both subject and
object stand out and are thus not divided is forgotten. There is left to man nothing
but his Will to power over objects."
“The man of today, technological man, is the final descendant
of Cartesian man,…locked up in his own luminous ego, confronted a world of
material objects as thoroughly alien and perhaps unknowable, so technological man
faces the objects in his world with no need or capacity for intimacy with them
beyond the knowledge of what button has to be pressed in order to control
their working.”
…Western man has got to fetch Being back from the oblivion
into which it has fallen. Man must learn to let Being be.”
Barrett Considers Art:
“But do all the military metaphors (Nietzschean Will to
Power) show us the other side of art? Do they convey to us that the artist, as
well as the spectator, must submit patiently and passively to the artistic
process, that he must lie in wait for the image to produce itself; that he
produces false notes as soon as he tries to force anything; that in short, he
must let the truth of his art happen to him? All of these points are part of
what Heidegger means by our letting Being be.”
I don’t think I’m technophobic or a Luddite; just trying to
find the physical and mental space to create.
Doesn’t it seem like the phone and google could be getting in
the way?
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