09.04.2017
- What does Heidegger mean by “modern technology?” What would he classify as “modern?” Giedion specifies clearly “modern technology” as technology that came around after the industrial revolution, but Heidegger is more vague in defining what he means by “modern technology.”
- Heidegger spends some time explaining man’s role in the “setting-upon,” “revealing,” and “concealing” of the truth or aletheia, and he says that “man does not have control over the un-concealment [of the real] itself.” Do you think that through technology man can do more than just perceive the real, but actually determine or create what’s real? (P. 18)
- What does Heidegger mean when he says, “Thus Enframing, as a destining of revealing, is indeed the essence of technology…?”
