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Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity?

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Schalow †, F. Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity?. . Revisiting Parvis Emad’s Contributions through the Questions of Today. Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani, 40(0), 273-290. https://doi.org/10.3790/heist.2024.367069
Schalow †, Frank "Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity?. Revisiting Parvis Emad’s Contributions through the Questions of Today. " Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani 40.0, 2024, 273-290. https://doi.org/10.3790/heist.2024.367069
Schalow †, Frank (2024): Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity?, in: Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani, vol. 40, iss. 0, 273-290, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/heist.2024.367069
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Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity?

Revisiting Parvis Emad’s Contributions through the Questions of Today

Schalow †, Frank

Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani, Vol. 40 (2024), Iss. 1 : pp. 273–290

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https://doi.org/10.3790/heist.2024.367069
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Prof. Dr. Frank Schalow †, University of New Orleans, Department of Philosophy 2000 Lakeshore Drive 148 New Orleans, USA

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Abstract

In this essay, I will outline the adjustments in Heidegger’s account of technicity that are necessary to address the danger (Gefahr) that revolves around recent advances, including cybernetics. These adjustments that Parvis Emad was among the first to pioneer, are hermeneutic guidelines that delineate the wholesale appearance of beings through the prism of a “mathematical project”. The mathematical project of ‘nature’ creates a platform on which cybernetics can arise in two ways: 1). by converting the linear sequencing of ‘time’ (as “making present”) into a universal form of calculation and 2). by subdividing ‘space’ into infinite points. The danger, then, does not lie in the ominous effects of technicity, but as a throwback to the metaphysical distortion of the reciprocity between being and time in which the former is confined to the presencing of beings through a model of calculability and the latter is reduced to the “digitizing” of a linear sequence of units.

The hermeneutic guidelines allow for the “retrograsping” (zürckgenommen [Emad’s translation] of the danger of technicity (including its transmutation into cybernetics) as a “throwback” to the abandonment of and by being (Seinsverlassenheit).

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Can We Be Awakened to the Danger of Technicity? 273
Frank Schalow † 273
I. Addressing the Danger through Hermeneutic Guidelines 275
II. ‘Time’ and the Mathematical Project of Nature 277
III. The Appeal to Being-historical Words via Emad’s Method of Translation 280
IV. Is There a New Signpost of the Danger of Technicity Today? 283
Conclusion 287
Bibliography 288

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