/lit/ - Literature

>>14611233
i'd be seething too if some pompous condescending incel group-think posted a paragraph posturing from some high ground that has never been shown to exist. more retarded is the fact he not only gave a view and a comment, but criticizing a successful youtube channel's authenticity is self-defeating hypocrisy

>Hence in China the force of technology dismantles the metaphysical unity of practice and theory, and creates a rupture, which still awaits unification. Of course, this is not something that is only happening in the East. In the West, as Heidegger described, the emergence of the category ‘technology’ no longer shares the same essence as techne. The question concerning technology should ultimately serve as a motivation to take up the question of Being— and, if I might say so, to create a new metaphysics; or, even better, a new cosmotechnics. In our time, this unification or indifference does not present itself as a quest for a ground, but rather exhibits itself as both an original ground (Urgrund) and an unground (Ungrund): Ungrund because it is open to alterities; Urgrund as a ground that resists assimilation. Hence the Urgrund and the Ungrund should be considered as a unity, much like being and nothingness. The quest for unity is properly speaking the telos of philosophy, as Hegel maintained in his treatise on Schelling and Fichte.

>Although Heidegger did not explicitly make this claim, in his commentary on Nietzsche he refers to metaphysics as a force of unification that overlooks all beings. However, we have to bear in mind that Heidegger’s reading of the history of Western metaphysics is only one possible interpretation.

and how’s about this for a charitable reading? even *heidegger* will not say that The West Means Technology, or at least not with a big smile on his face. technology as cybernetics is, in a sense, the completion of metaphysics - but they *aren’t the metaphysics that Heidegger himself likes,* and YH notes this.

it’s a distinction subtle enough to overlook way too easily. If heidegger had really believed that the completion of metaphysics as technology was a fait accompli, he wouldn’t have included himself in that story in the way that he does. this is why he will argue that nietzsche is the last great Western metaphysician, and that he is the first post-Nietzschean philosopher in that sense. but heidegger is who he is because he thinks - correctly - that there are still some things cybernetics cannot do.