From: "Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro" <capurro-AT-hbi-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: heidegger and race
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 20:43:39 +0100


Michael,

thanks for this:


> The loss of world does not have to be a
consequence of racism, but of the intrusion of another opening of world
based on  and eliciting another way of thinking. Ways of dwelling on the
Earth and ways of thinking are the same (belong together).
The gift of an iron axe by a white to an Aborigine living on the north coast
of Australia led to the time needed for making a dug-out canoe being reduced
from over a month to just a few days. But this gift meant also the end of a
way of living, a world. The thing given, an axe, is not an object with
certain properties that, given sufficient application of skilled force by a
willedsubject, is able to split wood, but is a thing in which a world
worlds. In this case, it is the European-Western world that worlds in the
axe, and this  worlding is antithetical to the ‘slower’ way of Aboriginal
worlding, a way of mortal dwelling with one another before their gods
between sky and earth. <

What about the gift of a PC or of Windows etc.? We discussed this last week
(Cyberculture Workshop). What kind of _world_ is being opened and
_destroyed_ through cyberspace? The same with regard to the Gutenberg
Galaxis being brought in the way of Bible by Christians who thought their
god was the true one... I think this question (technology as world-opening)
should be analyzed in a _cool_ manner, withouth any kind of _romanticisms_
eh
Rafael





Salut to you both,
Michael
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