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Beingness has dissolved into pure machination, so much so that through machination beings attain unrestricted power and the abandonment of beings by being accedes to its hidden 'sovereignty' - one that does not stem from this power but, instead, arises out of the concealed history of beyng. Machination alone can keep itself exclusively under its own command to itself and therein can find something definitive. Where meaninglessness has attained power, specifically through the human being as subjectum, as the reckoner and grasper of his own calculability and that of all things, there the removal of all meaning (i.e., the removal of the question of the truth of beyng - or of the accord of that truth in beingness and in its projection) must be replaced by something which alone still remains admissible as an appropriate substitute: through a calculating and specifically through a calculating with 'values'. 'Value' is the transference of the essentiality of the essence into the quantitative gigantic, the delivering up of being to calculation.
Heidegger, Uberlegungen XIII