MachineMachine /stream - tagged with heidegger http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Your Computer Really Is a Part of You http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools//your-computer-really-is-a-part-of-you “The tool isn’t separate from you. It’s part of you.” #Heidegger #technology #perception #tools ]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:50:17 -0700 http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/heidegger-tools//your-computer-really-is-a-part-of-you Ken Goldberg Discusses Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/ken-goldberg-discusses-telerobots-androids-and-heidegger This year saw the invasion of telepresence robots—electromechanical avatars that allow you to be there without actually being there. Today, half a dozen companies are selling, or will start selling, these robots. I’ve tested two of the robots myself, discussing at length their technical merits as well as their practical shortcomings, and even helped a colleague build his own robotic self.

Although the technology behind these robots is fascinating, I’m also interested in the historical and philosophical aspects of telepresence. Telepresence robots didn’t come out of nowhere; they stem from a convergence of different technologies, each with… ]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:58:00 -0700 http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/ken-goldberg-discusses-telerobots-androids-and-heidegger Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger http://www.slate.com/id/2234010/ Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the philosopher Martin Heidegger, were published within 10 days of each other last month. The pieces cast further doubt on the overinflated, underexamined reputations of both figures and shed new light on their intellectually toxic relationship. Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! BuzzFacebook FacebookPost to MySpace!MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE My hope is that these… ]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:00 -0700 http://www.slate.com/id/2234010/ The Origin of the Work of Art http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4423/origin-work-art In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the element of truth in a culture, but the means of creating it and providing a springboard from which "that which is" can be revealed. Works of art are not merely representations of the way things are, but actually produce a community's shared understanding. Each time a new artwork is added to any culture, the meaning of what it is to exist is inherently changed. ]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:00 -0700 http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4423/origin-work-art The phenomenology of text http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/102022 The phenomenology / ontology of text: has anyone examined this issue directly in philosophical, literary and/or critical terms? I am interested in the experience and perception of text, both within readership and on an abstract (more holistic level perhaps) as the archetypical mediator and virtual-archive of human culture. I wish to explore it via its mediums (e.g. book, computer screen), its modes (e.g. semiotics, translation) and its means (e.g. poetry, fiction, encryption).

I came at this problem through Heidegger (most specifically in his re-appropriation of the term 'techné'), looking at text as a technology.

I have… ]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:21:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/102022 How Technology "Reveals" the World http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/4091/How-Technology-Reveals-the-World
“There was a time when it was not technology alone that bore the name techné... Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was called techné. And the poïesis of the fine arts also was called techné.”

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology (1954)

For Martin Heidegger the essence of technology is to be understood as distinct from technology itself. Etymologically the word technology stems from the Greek techné, "the name not only for the activities and… ]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:19:00 -0700 http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/4091/How-Technology-Reveals-the-World