Heidegger The Question Concerning Technology

'One is that techni is the name not only for the activities and skills of the craftsman, but also for the arts of the mind and the fine arts. Techne belongs to bringing-forth, to poijsis; it is something poietic.'

'Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence [West] in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.'

'The revealing that rules throughout modern technology has the character of a setting-upon, in the sense of a challengingforth. That challenging happens in that the energy concealed in nature is unlocked, what is unlocked is transformed, what is transformed is stored up, what is stored up is, in turn, distributed, and what is distributed is switched about ever anew. Unlocking, transforming, storing, distributing, and switching about are ways of revealing. But the revealing never simply comes to an end. Neither does it run off into the indeterminate. The revealing reveals to itself its own manifoldly interlocking paths, through regulating their course. This regulating itself is, for its part, everywhere secured. Regulating and securing even become the chief characteristics of the challenging revealing.'

From 'Digital Practices. Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology'

'The modern techne, in contrast to the original Greek meaning of the term that was poetic an revealing art.. causes us to refute the revelation that art can bring us. For Heidegger, in attempting to overcome this alienation and assure 'our redemption', art and technology must be reintegrated.' (Broadhurst, 2007 p. 35)

From Heidegger's Being and Time

'Ontically, "letting something be involved" signifies that within our factical concern we let something ready-to-hand be so-and-so as it is already and in order that it be such. The way we take this ontical sense of 'letting be' is, in principle, ontological. And therewith we Interpet the meaning of previously freeing what is proximally ready-to-hand within-the-world. Previously letting something 'be' does not mean that we must first bring it into its Being and produce it; it means rather that something which is already an 'entity' must be discovered in its readiness-to-hand, and that we must let the entity which has this being be encountered.' p.117

From Heidegger's Being and Time

'The ready-to-hand is encountered within-the-world. The being of this entity, radiness-to-hand, thus stands in some ontological relationship towards the world and towards worldhood. In anything ready-to-hand the world is always 'there'. Whenever we encounter anything, the world has already been previously discovered, though not thematically.' P113