The Age of the World Picture
The document discusses the essence of modern science, the transformation of the world into a picture, the subjectivity of man as a subject, and the interplay between subjectivism and objectivism.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This document explores the effects of mechanical reproduction on art, discussing the change in perception, the relationship between mass and art, and the influence of technology and politics.
web.mit.eduThe Question Concerning Technology
The text explores the essence of technology, distinguishing it from mere tools, emphasizing technology as a mode of revealing that challenges nature while also presenting dangers and potential for human understanding and freedom.
www2.hawaii.eduGalileo teaches us that the truth of the world is beyond human sense perception. In other words, the truth of the world is inhuman. Increasingly, what this means is that we live in a world that we don’t understand. And here, we finally return to Hannah Arendt’s main worry about science. For Arendt, what is decisive about modern science is that it... See more
Human Being in an Inhuman Age
Long before AI, philosopher Martin Heidegger anticipated this transformation.
In The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger warned that technology is not just a collection of tools, but a way of seeing the world, a revealing that both illuminates and conceals. Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) describes technology’s insidious power to... See more
In The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger warned that technology is not just a collection of tools, but a way of seeing the world, a revealing that both illuminates and conceals. Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) describes technology’s insidious power to... See more
Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican
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