Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:19:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Iraq Teachers Fired
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 25/11/03 12:15 am, Bakker, R.B.M. de at R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl wrote:

> Gestell is not a turbine or a market, it is the constellation, within
> 
> whichthe being of beings is a product of merely human perspective. "The age in
> which european thought was of that
> 
> opinion, is still throwing the last shadow over us." (Zur Seinsfrage)

Yes, rene, the constellation wherein (e.g.) a cow becomes a machine for
making burgers out of grass (mechanised agro-culture, same as the "supply of
patients for a clinic", etc), or merely a sign of 'nature' (however
enculturalised and mesticated), or the nostalgicised vision of a bygone age
of old-fashioned 'natural innocence', etc, etc: never just a cow.

"where have all the cows gone
Long time passing?"

regards

mP



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