Sublime

Martin Heidegger had a fascinating way of thinking about this. He argued that we don't really possess language; language possesses us. Most of the time, we're not speaking our thoughts; we're letting cultural patterns and inherited ways of speaking think through us.

In his 1947 work ‘Letter on Humanism’, he said,

"It is language that speaks, not

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He described modernity’s obsession with Machen —do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is real. This becomes the default metaphysics of acceleration: faster iteration, more output, more control. But Ratzinger contrasts this with another mode of being: Verstehen and Stehen —to understand and to stand. That is, to... See more

One of the esse ntial phenomena of the modern age is its science. A phenomenon of no less importance is machine technology. We must not, however, misinterpret that technology as the mere application of modern mathematical physical science to praxis. Machine technology is itself an autonomous transformation of praxis, a type of transforma-tion... See more