Martin Heidegger's
Enframing
WAY OF REVEALING IN MORDERN TECHNOLOGY
Das Ge-Stell
In the decades after the Second World War,
Heidegger's writings on modernity came to focus
explicitly on the term das Ge-stell, which he uses
as a key expression when describing the nature of
modern technology. There are many definitions to
the term with Albert Hofstadter's "Enframing"
being the most accurate.
Martin Heidegger | Das Ge-Stell
2 Ways of Thinking
Calculative Thinking
Meditative Thinking
One orders and puts a system to nature
so it can be understood better and
controlled
One lets nature reveal itself without
forcing it
Martin Heidegger | Ways of Thinking
What is ENFRAMING
Enframing is the way of revealing in Modern
Technology.
It challenges forth and sets upon nature as a way of
looking at reality.
Puts nature in a box/frame so that it can be better
understood and controlled according to people's
desires.
Martin Heidegger | Enframing
We live in a world that is flux and ever-changing. When you attempt to define the
"essence" of something, there is difficulty in finding a fixed point of reference since things
just do not last and no two things can be said to be exactly the same.
Plato postulated the existence of a metaphysical instance of a thing or "Form". It is the
"idea" of a thing that is absolute and enduring.
Downside
to
Enframing
Since humans can be subsumed
into the process of "enframing",
as a unit of labor, technology not
only has the potential to affect
the human condition, but,
perhaps, the essence of what it
means to be human.