From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:27:36 EDT
Subject: Re: World corporatism and the Enframing of work



In a message dated 4/23/03 4:21:15 PM, artefact-AT-t-online.de writes:

>The only problem is that Heidegger has nothing at all to say about 
capitalism.
>That does not stop one (das Man) from including it by the by in what is
>regarded
>as Heidegger's 'critique of technology'.

Hi Michael,

It has been several years since I read your piece on Marx et Heidegger, and 
it is probably time for a revisit.

It may be the case that Heidegger thinks Marxism under the sway of technology 
as an epochal mode of big B Being.  A perusal of Negri/Hardt's Empire, and 
their planetary critique of capital appears to complement that view of tech. 
But the (re-)call of your paper may generate a richer thinking for me. Thanks.

 It is not a matter of technology being 'bad'.  I read Heidegger as quite 
firm on the view of technology as our ontological trap. That technology is a 
name of Being, perhaps the last metaphysical name of Being. Until we work 
through this necessity of quantifying everything, and of reducing certainty 
to calculation (work thru this nihilism out the other side of it) we are 
falling deeper into the endless night of Enframing and the total mobilization 
of all beings toward the arbitrary ends of humanity. I gain this sense of the 
dilemma from one of Heidegger's last essays as well, "The End of Philosophy 
and the Task of Thinking."

Planetary corporatism describes the technological appropriation of the social 
pretty damn well.

peace,
hen


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