technological understanding of being

is a way of understanding the world which treats everything as resource and is undergirded with the goal of endless transformation, striving toward more and more flexibility.

's goal is endless transformation, striving toward more and more flexibility which exist for its own sake.

But we can see now that electricity is not a perfect example of technological stuff because it ends up finally turned into light, heat, or motion to satisfy some subject's desire. Heidegger's intuition is that treating everything as standing reserve or, as we might better say, resources, makes possible endless disaggregation, redistribution, and reaggregation for its own sake. As soon as he sees that information is truly endlessly transformable Heidegger switches to computer manipulation of information as his paradigm. 'The goal of technology, Heidegger then tells us, is more and more flexibility and efficiency simply for its own sake. There is no longer, as there was in Kant, an onto-theological center that provides a goal for all activity. There is ordering but no orderer. Heidegger says:

is the way in which our world is ordered and revealed.

the way in 'which our'world is 'ordered' and 'revealed'. Ordering refers to both putting into place' (e.g. classification or enframing) and 'commanding' (giving orders). Revealing means 'bringing into existence' (making appear)

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technological understanding of being