machination

is the method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honourable efforts to do the right thing.

The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honourable efforts to do the right thing

is not just a human behavior, the act of manipulation; it is a revelation of beings as a whole as exploitable and manipulable objects.

The word "machination" (Machenschaft) is Heidegger's expression in the Contributions for what he will later call Technik (technology) or Ge-stell (enframing). Machination is not just a human behavior, the act of manipulation; it is a revelation of beings as a whole as exploitable and manipulable objects (§61).

is a world in which beings become "unbeings”, the importance of everything is being destroyed; a world in which beings are, but Being has abandoned all 'beings’.

In the world of machination, beings become "unbeings" (§§2, 58). This expression does not mean that everything has been destroyed, but that the importance of everything is being destroyed. Heidegger complains that "beings are [but] Being has abandoned all 'beings'" (§5, p. 15). In other words, the difference it makes to us that there is something rather than nothing has dwindled away to mere presence-at-hand. The wealth of meaning has faded away, leaving only a bleak, gray wasteland.

is not just the realm of machines, but beings as they are revealed in the modern, technological worldview - beings as calculable, manipulable resources.

(b) Machination. As we have seen, this is not just the realm of machines, but beings as they are revealed in the modern, technological worldview - beings as calculable, manipulable resources. This theme is explored further in postwar essays such as "The Question Concerning Technology", which we will discuss below.

machination, n.All

machination