Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:09:46 +0800 Subject: Re: [fyi] What is Realism in Iraq? From: Malcolm Riddoch <m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au> On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 09:54 PM, Anthony Crifasi wrote: > Shedding light on Gestell also entails distinguishing it from what it > is not. Gestell is you getting up in the morning and putting on your Gucci sunwear, traveling to your paid work using public transport on a Mercedes bus burning diesel distilled from Saudi oil, then sitting in front of a South Korean manufactured computer all day on the internet mailing lists, collecting pay from a teller machine, buying a frozen dinner from Wal Mart then watching a satellite tv broadcast on your Sony widescreen about the latest casualties in Iraq and willfully trying to make sense of the whole business of everydayness by thinking 'Gestell means the physical rather than behavioural sciences' before slipping into your cheap Chinese made pyjamas, now subject to a tariff, setting the digital alarm to CST and getting a few Z's before the whole work cycle starts again in the morning. Over and over again. Gestell is the historically constituted dynamic globalised framework of the will to will that constantly sets up everything you do and think about, it sets the stage for your own historical world understanding and its modern relation to truth. On the perceptual level it sets up your historically constituted understanding of material phenomena as something 'objectively real' standing over against your merely subjective perception. It sets up your self-consciousness as such, as the constant repetition of a willed objectification of the earth and its calculative thinking that belongs to the nihilistic essence of technology. Gestell is a problem of the will to will and scientific thinking is just one of its myriad consequences, whether that's physical or behavioural science. Everything you do and think about in your everyday life is already a part of the 'armament mechanism' of the globalised planning calculation of beings as a whole which gives historical form to your modernised everyday being in the world. It's the totalising cybernetic framework of our current and future global reality. At least that's my reading of it. Regards, Malcolm --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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