> Absendedatum: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:31:33 -0400
> An: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Von: paul.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Murphy)
> Betreff: RE: Another twist on overcoming
> Antworten an: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Paul Murphy:
do you see any difference between the Ge-Stell of modern technology
and, what I call, the 'Information Ge-Stell'? I know Heideggers late
reflections on the distinction between language as poetry and
language as information. But does it make any difference in the case
of the Web? Is this a kind of 'weak technology' as Vattimo would say?
is it ein Aufblitzen des Ereignisses? what is the meaning of Hs
'metaphor' concerning the 'negative' (in a photographic sense)?
Rafael
> Michael Eldred writes:
>
> >I regard it as important to drop, or at least push back, the translation of
> >'staendig' as 'constant' to shift attention to the standingness of the being
> >of
> >beings. This shift of attention is related, I believe, to the shift from
> >temporalitaet as the horizon for the sense of beyng, to the truth
> >(Unverborgenheit) of beyng as the locus for the thinking of beyng.
> >
> >Later I said:
> >"It [metaphysics] takes beings AS such for granted, does not see that they are
> >granted -- by beyng, by the clearing, by the event."
> >This is misleading, since the last three are not synonymous, but indeed titles
> >for the Same. The clearing is, more strictly spoken, the truth of beyng, the
> >unconcealedness for beyng. Nevertheless, all three are involved in granting,
> >the
> >event most of all, since it is nothing other than granting (including
> >withdrawing and refusing).
>
> This last parenthetical appendage is of paramount importance in twisting
> free from metaphysics; coming to presence, standing-out in the clearing,
> also and essentially comes to pass (how would one otherwise translate sich
> ereignet?) as absencing and withdrawal -- genesis and phthora,
> coming-to-presence and passing-from-presence do not simple 'bound'
> staendiges Anwesenheit but suffuse, interpenetrate, envelop and inflect it.
> Which is one way of beginning to think the other beginning, in the epoch of
> global technology -- the essence of technology, the Ge-stell, destines man
> to think beings as standing presence paralyzed and petrified into Bestand,
> stock, standing-reserve, oblivious to withdrawal and mystery, hence
> oblivious to the granting, the gift.
> Back on the way to sobriety...
> Cheers,
> Paul N. Murphy
> University of Toronto
>
>
>
>
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> An: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Von: paul.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Murphy)
> Betreff: RE: Another twist on overcoming
> Antworten an: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Paul Murphy:
do you see any difference between the Ge-Stell of modern technology
and, what I call, the 'Information Ge-Stell'? I know Heideggers late
reflections on the distinction between language as poetry and
language as information. But does it make any difference in the case
of the Web? Is this a kind of 'weak technology' as Vattimo would say?
is it ein Aufblitzen des Ereignisses? what is the meaning of Hs
'metaphor' concerning the 'negative' (in a photographic sense)?
Rafael
> Michael Eldred writes:
>
> >I regard it as important to drop, or at least push back, the translation of
> >'staendig' as 'constant' to shift attention to the standingness of the being
> >of
> >beings. This shift of attention is related, I believe, to the shift from
> >temporalitaet as the horizon for the sense of beyng, to the truth
> >(Unverborgenheit) of beyng as the locus for the thinking of beyng.
> >
> >Later I said:
> >"It [metaphysics] takes beings AS such for granted, does not see that they are
> >granted -- by beyng, by the clearing, by the event."
> >This is misleading, since the last three are not synonymous, but indeed titles
> >for the Same. The clearing is, more strictly spoken, the truth of beyng, the
> >unconcealedness for beyng. Nevertheless, all three are involved in granting,
> >the
> >event most of all, since it is nothing other than granting (including
> >withdrawing and refusing).
>
> This last parenthetical appendage is of paramount importance in twisting
> free from metaphysics; coming to presence, standing-out in the clearing,
> also and essentially comes to pass (how would one otherwise translate sich
> ereignet?) as absencing and withdrawal -- genesis and phthora,
> coming-to-presence and passing-from-presence do not simple 'bound'
> staendiges Anwesenheit but suffuse, interpenetrate, envelop and inflect it.
> Which is one way of beginning to think the other beginning, in the epoch of
> global technology -- the essence of technology, the Ge-stell, destines man
> to think beings as standing presence paralyzed and petrified into Bestand,
> stock, standing-reserve, oblivious to withdrawal and mystery, hence
> oblivious to the granting, the gift.
> Back on the way to sobriety...
> Cheers,
> Paul N. Murphy
> University of Toronto
>
>
>
>
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