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“Everything depends on our manipulating technology in the proper manner as a means. We will, as we say, “get” technology “spiritually in hand.” We will master it. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control” (Heidegger 5)

“Only at the point where such an uncovering happens does the true come to pass” (H 6)

“Wherever ends are pursued and means are employed, wherever instrumentality reigns, there reigns causality” (6)

For centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes : (1) the causa materialis, the material, the matter out of which, for example, a silver chalice is made ; (2) the causa formalis, the form, the shape into which the material enters ; (3) the causafinalis, the end, for example, the sacrificial rite in relation to which the chalice required is determined as to its form and matter; (4) the causa efficiens, which brings about the effect that is the finished, actual chalice, in this instance, the silversmith. What technology is, when represented as a means, discloses itself when we trace instrumentality back to fourfold causality. (Heidegger 6)

"Certainly for centuries we have acted as though the doctrine of the four causes had fallen from heaven as a truth as clear as daylight. But it might be that the time has come to ask, Why are there just four causes?"

“Bringing and Presencing via Plato: "Every occasion for whatever passes over and goes forward into presencing from that which is not presencing is poiesis, is bringing-forth [Her-vor-bringen]” (H 11)

POESIS: BRINGING-FORTH & LOWRIDER CULTURE

“the silver chalice, has the bursting open belonging to bringingforth not in itself, but in another (en alloi), in the craftsman or artist.” (H 11) ---> The technology is burst and brought forth by the craftsman, not by itself, does not form itself. Thinking of poesis in the context of low-rider culture and the “bringing-forth” of identity and presence within automotive manipulation and technological briolage. For low-riders it is a bursting forth not only of new crafting and technological transformation, but of self – the technology changes their identity and how they relate to the world at large. Ben Chappell on making/crafting within lowrider culture: "But long before these publications, lowriders were suggesting, even in the textual mediations of our conversations, that the line between cultural concerns about meaning and mechanical things was a blur. In a space close to the everyday practice of lowriding, rather than in more formal conversations or written works about it, it becomes difficult to divorce //poesis// from the practices of //tekne//, creation from technical production" (Chappell 139)

“Bringing-forth comes to pass only insofar as something concealed comes into un concealment” -- un concealment of hidden identities, uses and culturally meanings of technological manipulation. Appropriating technology for some new use, for some new realization.

Looking awry with technology and this bringing forth, different perspectives lead to different revelations/uses:

“ Techne is a mode of aletheuein. It reveals whatever does not bring itself forth and does not yet lie here before us, whatever can look and turn out now one way and now another” (Heidegger 13)

Entanglements and a Mangling of intentionality. Rheinberger and the experimental system ((???)!!!) : “It is said that modern technology is something incomparably different from all earlier technologies because it is based on modern physics as an exact science. Meanwhile we have come to understand more clearly that the reverse holds true as well : Modern physics, as experimental, is dependent upon technical apparatus and upon progress in the building of apparatus” (H 14)

“Yet precisely because man is challenged more originally than are the energies of nature, i.e., into the process of ordering, he never is transformed into mere standing-reserve. Since man drives technology forward, he takes part in ordering as a way of revealing. But the un concealment itself, within which ordering unfolds, is never a human handiwork, any more than is the realm through which man is already passing every time he as a subject relates to an object” (H, 18)

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// “[…] what is lost in translation, often without a trace, is a certain practice of language, in which collogquial, idiomatic phrases play a decisive role. The twists and turns taken by the most familiar, most banal, most household terms in Heidegger’s writing yield an effect of uncanniness that in turn constitutes a powerful incitement to rethink things often taken for granted such as the privilege generally assigned to technical terminology over everyday language in philosophical discourse,” (Weber 57) //

// “Thus, the knowledge that is tecnics is not addressed at making or producing particular things but rather at ‘the unlocking of beings as such’. In this sense, //techne //is a form of// poiesis //that in turn is closely related to art. The text in which the determination of// techne //as// poiesis //is most fully elaborated is ‘//Die Frage nach der Technik’.//” (Weber 58)//

// “If the goings-on of technics are part of a larger movement of //Entbergung, //understood as the ineluctable, irreducible path of unsecuring, then the unsettling effects of technics cannot be considered to be an exclusive aspect of its peculiarly modern form. Rather, the danger associated with modern technis is – as Heidegger explicitly asserts – a consequence of the goings-on of technics as such and in general as a movement of unsecuring. The danger is there from the startling start, and technics must be conceived both as a response to this danger and also as its perpetuation.” (W 66)//

// “But in the era of industrialization, nature is no longer bestellt – worked and cultivated. It is gestellt, literally, 'placed’, but in the very particular and somewhat ominous sense of being cornerd, entrapped, maneuvered into a place from which there is no escape. With this change of place (which also involves a change of pace, an acceleration), the word bestellen assumes its more familiar, contemporary meanining, that of ‘placing an order’ or of ‘ordering a place’ (but also that of ordering someone to appear at a certain time and place). Nature is //placed on order” //(W 68)//

// “If the institutionalization of the subject/object relation – the matrix of representational thinking – is a result of the emplacement that goes on in and as modern technology, then those very same goings-on undermine the objectivity upon which the matrix depends. By determining reality as stranding stock, representational thinking treats objects as calculable data, as information to be taken into account or accounted for. Thus whether in economic practice or modern art, objects are deobjectified by becoming increasingly subject to the calculations of a subjective will struggling to realize its representations and thereby to place itself in security” ( W 73). //

// “A receptionist must know how connections are tolerably made, determining which opening will establish communication between two parties or two things – in brief, she must understand how to manipulate the switchboard or she would lose her post” (Ronell 25). // // As receptionists, must we continually make these connections, making communications and manipulating different texts into communication with one another. Where is the connective tissue of the text? //

// “If these texts were repeating the gesture according to which the oedipal gaze is averted, then we should remember that every repetition, to be what it is, brings something new with it. The child has disappeared in the mother. This disappearance or traversal also devours the mother – each the absolute hostage of the Other, caught in a structure that inhibits the desire to cancel a call” (Ronnell 23). //

// "The inter-view of two bodies, the //Spiegel// and Martin Heidegger, who took a call, in a vessel destined for circulation after-my-death, looking at himself, interviewing his history as a closure, he is viewing from beyond himself, from the beyond which he shares with an earth that is no longer an earth, receiving an image of herself from beyond her: a transmission both from her and from beyond herself. She receives an image of herself, a click, the shutter of multiple eyes," (Ronnell 41)



Each translation, each move down the line of a game of telephone is a new repetition, a newly reiterated statement. Down the telephone and around the circle of translated cultures and meanings. From Heidegger to to Weber to Ronnell

Ronnell 42-45 ***Heidegger as tool of the party and otherwise, philosophy is dead, Nietsche the last philosopher – the end of man as well – so many jobs and positions killed off by technological advance, pre-technology employment. The view from above and beyond – the moon and the earth, uncanny view from the moon, seeing the earth from above, translated/transmitted to the Television. Bleeding eye-socket of the moon/earth