Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Martin Heidegger, Gestell
20 Dec 2016
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Recruiting inhabitants to live on mars for a period of time. Hope to send such contestants to the planet by 2023. Humanity was never meant to die on earth . German philosopher who examined the ontology of being . Gestell: what lies beneath modern technology, term derived by heidegger. Changed the way people understand what thinking is. His thinking is said to have embodied naziism. Came to an understanding about what modern technology means to us, says it is something dangerously fascist. Says we do not see life as it is, and in order to see what is true and essential in our lives we must think in a new, different way. He is very ambivalent when it"s a matter of characterizing the essence of technology, even though he"s among those who have gone farthest in pointing out its contradictions and the incalculable range of our fascination with it.
