At 10:17 AM 1/10/96 GMT, Antonio Tombolini wrote:
>
>
>> To what degree is Heidegger's discussion of language tied to his
>>discussions of technology? Certainly, on the surface, Heidegger's critique of
>>linguistics as concerned with the functional rather than the experiential
>>seems to be tied to his critique of the age of technology. I take this as a
>>critique of language as mere expression or encoding and decoding of already
>>present thoughts which occur outside of language. Rather, Heidegger seems to
>>be pointing us towards how language is not only funcitional but also
poetic in
>>the way that it constructs and situates our realities. I envision
>>Nietzsche and Derrida, though I am not quite sure of Heidegger himself, as
>>having an "experience" with language in their use of rhetorical tropes to
>>disrupt the flow of the functional encoding and decoding of singular certain
>>meaning through language in order to create a plurality of possible meanings
>>as well as lead us back to language in the same way that a metafictionist
uses
>>literary form to highlight the constructed nature of literary texts.
>> Does this sound reasonable or completely off base? I would appreciate
>>any comments on this or any other possible connections between language and
>>the age of technology.
>> Thanks,
>> Todd Harper
>> University of Louisville
>>
>
>(my english is not so good, nevetheless...)
> The age of technology is the dominance of "das Gestell". This is the
>fact and the risk of the age. And that involves also the language, in a
>double sense:
> 1) The language is "the house of Being", the place and the way in
>which Being offers its own "ouverture". In this sense the language is, in
>this age, as poetic as well it shows - by reducing itself to "the flow of
>the functional encoding and decoding of singular certain meaning" - the
>essence of the age of technology (das Gestell).
> 2) Technology "pretends" the language as one of its own way of
>realization: in this sense the a.m. reduction of the language to "the flow
>of the functional..." is also the ultimate risk: the risk to loose the
>essence of the language as the house of Being.
> This is the double face of our age (the age of technology): the
>extreme danger and the possible salvation dwell the same place (remember
>Hoelderlin...)
> Thanks.
> Antonio Tombolini.
>
>
>
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> Language is/not "the house of being"
a s p ace:
L
be (i) n g/o ffer(r)s it s own ou v er/r(a)ture
"language" dis eng ag es:
La u
wor(L)ding
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>
>
>> To what degree is Heidegger's discussion of language tied to his
>>discussions of technology? Certainly, on the surface, Heidegger's critique of
>>linguistics as concerned with the functional rather than the experiential
>>seems to be tied to his critique of the age of technology. I take this as a
>>critique of language as mere expression or encoding and decoding of already
>>present thoughts which occur outside of language. Rather, Heidegger seems to
>>be pointing us towards how language is not only funcitional but also
poetic in
>>the way that it constructs and situates our realities. I envision
>>Nietzsche and Derrida, though I am not quite sure of Heidegger himself, as
>>having an "experience" with language in their use of rhetorical tropes to
>>disrupt the flow of the functional encoding and decoding of singular certain
>>meaning through language in order to create a plurality of possible meanings
>>as well as lead us back to language in the same way that a metafictionist
uses
>>literary form to highlight the constructed nature of literary texts.
>> Does this sound reasonable or completely off base? I would appreciate
>>any comments on this or any other possible connections between language and
>>the age of technology.
>> Thanks,
>> Todd Harper
>> University of Louisville
>>
>
>(my english is not so good, nevetheless...)
> The age of technology is the dominance of "das Gestell". This is the
>fact and the risk of the age. And that involves also the language, in a
>double sense:
> 1) The language is "the house of Being", the place and the way in
>which Being offers its own "ouverture". In this sense the language is, in
>this age, as poetic as well it shows - by reducing itself to "the flow of
>the functional encoding and decoding of singular certain meaning" - the
>essence of the age of technology (das Gestell).
> 2) Technology "pretends" the language as one of its own way of
>realization: in this sense the a.m. reduction of the language to "the flow
>of the functional..." is also the ultimate risk: the risk to loose the
>essence of the language as the house of Being.
> This is the double face of our age (the age of technology): the
>extreme danger and the possible salvation dwell the same place (remember
>Hoelderlin...)
> Thanks.
> Antonio Tombolini.
>
>
>
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>
> Language is/not "the house of being"
a s p ace:
L
be (i) n g/o ffer(r)s it s own ou v er/r(a)ture
"language" dis eng ag es:
La u
wor(L)ding
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