CHAPTER 4

• Technology


  A way of revealing the world
• Definitions of technology

  • Instrumental definition: Technology is as means to achieve ends
  • Anthropological definition: Technology is a human activity
• Essence of technology

  Not something we make; it is a mode of being, or of revealing
• Martin Heidegger: '"The essence of technology is by no means anything technological."'
• Poiesis


  The act of bringing something out of concealment
• Aletheia


  Unclosedness, unconcealedness, disclosure, or truth
• Techne


  The human ability to make and perform, encompassing knowledge and understanding
• Modern technology


  Challenging forth rather than bringing forth
• Challenging forth


  A mode of revealing nature that could be sharply contrasted with "Physis" which is the arising of something from itself, a bringing-forth or poiesis
• Expediting


  A process of revealing in as much as it "unlocks" and "exposes" something
• Standing in reserve


  The things that are revealed in modern technology
• Bringing-forth


  Humans only give form to what already exists without disruption and control
• Challenging-forth


  Humans control the productive process and reduce it to something else, often inferior to its true essence
• Enframing


  Modern technology's way of revealing and ordering (or framing)
• Calculative Thinking


  Humans desire to put an order to nature to better understand and control it
• Meditative Thinking


  Humans allow nature to reveal it self to them without the use of force and violence
• Destining


  The role humans take as instruments of technology through enframing
• The dangers of technology lie in how people let it overtake them
• Humans are responsible for recognizing how they become technological instruments