File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0311, message 474


From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:34:41 +0000


Malcolm Riddoch wrote:

> > If the Rhine found an alternate route around the dam and missed the > 
>power plant, then the Rhine would be precisely OUT of control, not > 
>ordered, controlled, and on call, and would therefore hardly be an > 
>exhibition of how things are defined under the sway of gestell.
>
>On the contrary Anthony, if the Rhine breaks its banks and disrupts the 
>production of electricity then it becomes even more explicitly framed by 
>Gestell precisely as nature 'OUT of control, not ordered, controlled, and 
>on call'

Yes but the more the Rhine does that, the less it can be a legitimate 
power-supplier for the plant, and therefore the less it is stored and on 
call as "water-power." In the extreme case, if noone could think of any way 
to the contain the Rhine, then the Rhine would appear totally uncontainable 
and uncontrollable, and would not be seen as possible "water power" for the 
plant at all. So the more power something has to regularly preclude such 
incidents, the more power it has to define things under the sway of gestell. 
That's why I'm emphasizing the ability of the government to actually 
physically penalize me for failing to comply with its mandates, whereas 
corporations can hardly throw me in jail or sieze my assets simply for 
trying to circumvent them.

Anthony Crifasi

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