Heidegger - Technology and the Suspension of Being

The consumption of all material, including the raw material "man", for the unconditional possibility of the production of everything, is determined in a concealed way by the complete emptiness in which beings, the material of what is real, are suspended. This emptiness has to be filled up. But since the emptiness of Being can never be filled up by the fullness of beings, especially when this emptiness can never be experienced as such, the only way to escape it is incessantly to arrange beings in the constant possibility of being ordered as the form of guaranteeing aimless activity.

Viewed in this way, technology is the organization of a lack, since it is related to the emptiness of Being contrary to its knowledge.


-M.H., Overcoming Metaphysics (Uberwindung der Metaphysick), 1953.


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