July 20, 2004
How can we relate ourselves to technology in a way that not only resists its devastation but also gives it a positive role in our lives?
Heidegger advocates a turn not from a technological disclosure of being but from a metaphysical interpretation of that disclosure, whereby everything is construed as a resource to be used.
Heidegger’s turning is a manner of “caring” or, more precisely, “poetically dwelling” that fosters a turn in the world involving both conservation (recycling waste and protecting endangered species) and enabling intervention such as architectural dwelling. This points to an ethics of dwelling.
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