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09 Mar 16
Yee Sian NgAlbert Borgmann advances an American frontiersman's version of the question concerning technology that was pursued by Heidegger almost half a century ago among the peasants in the Black Forest.
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24 Dec 14
chexoteHighway Bridges and Feasts:
Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Department of Philosophy
Moses Hall - MC2390
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-2390
Charles Spinosa
Department of English
Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056 -
11 Nov 12
Mark Pugsley"Highway Bridges and Feasts:
Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology"-
How can we relate ourselves to technology in a way that not only resists its devastation but also gives it a positive role in our lives?
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Technology, as Borgmann understands it, belongs to the last stage in the history of the understandings of being in the West. It replaces the worlds of poiesis, craftsmen, and Christians with a world in which subjects control objects.
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modern and postmodern technology
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Postmodern technology, by being flexible and adaptive, produces instead a diverse array of quality goods such as high-tech athletic shoes designed specifically for each particular athletic activity
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Thus the limit of postmodernity, as Borgmann understands it, would be reached, not by the total objectification and exploitation of nature, but by getting rid of natural objects and replacing them with simulacra that are completely under our control
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entirely subject to my desire."
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Thus for Heidegger postmodern technology is not the culmination of the modern subject's controlling of objects but a new stage in the understanding of being.
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"An Era When Fluidity Has Replaced Maturity"
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from control of objects to flexibility of storage and access
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no longer a fixed body of objects with fixed identities and contents
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In short, the postmodern human being is not interested in collecting but is constituted by connecting.
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Borgmann's understanding of technological practices as still enmeshed with subjectivity leads him to the conclusion that technological things cannot solicit focal practices, while Heidegger's account of postmodern technological practices as radically different from modern subject/object practices enables him to see a positive role for technological things, and the practices they solicit.
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ken .On the fourfold (with a diversion into Turkle on MUD's) - "When he speaks of death, he does not mean demise or a medically defined death. He means an attribute of the way human practices work that causes mortals (later Heidegger's word for people who are
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