I noticed that Rich had already posted a passage from Heidegger and \u201cThe Question Concerning Technology\u201d, but I would like to discuss another part of it. Early in this essay Heidegger states that \u201cTechnology is a way of revealing\u201d. I think that this is important and that the \u201crevealing\u201d Heidegger mentions is closely connected with what he\u00a0elsewhere\u00a0calls \u201cregioning\u201d, which he says opens\u00a0\u201cthe clearing of Being\u201d. By this he does not mean a type of conscious thought or unconscious thought but rather something that makes both of these possible to begin with. It is tied up with speaking a language and with dwelling among other people in the world. (He gets rather mystical when he tries to describe it in his later writings.) The view of technology as a way of revealing would suggest that technology is inextricably bound up with the way in which we live, our practices, and our institutions. It would support Neil Postman\u2019s claim that a technology\u2019s function follows from its form and that new technologies threaten institutions. It may be a bit disturbing, though, as we usually like to think of ourselves as rational beings who can represent technology objectively and freely decide how we will use\u00a0it.\u00a0As Heidegger himself explains at the end of the essay, though, it\u00a0is not necessarily a fatalistic picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I noticed that Rich had already posted a passage from Heidegger and \u201cThe Question Concerning Technology\u201d, but I would like to discuss another part of it. Early in this essay Heidegger states that \u201cTechnology is a way of revealing\u201d. I think that this is important and that the \u201crevealing\u201d Heidegger mentions is closely connected with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5607,3693,5608,6808],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-heidegger","tag-postman","tag-revealing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}