We Need to Talk About Heidegger
Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies
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Edited By Justin Michael Battin and German A. Duarte
This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in order to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Following the release of Heidegger’s controversial Black Notebooks and the subsequent calls to abandon the philosopher, this book seeks to demonstrate why Heidegger, rather than be pushed aside and shunned by media practitioners, ought to be embraced by and further incorporated into the discipline, as he offers unique and often innovative pathways to address, and ultimately understand, our daily engagements with media-related phenomena.
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien. 2018. 316 p.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Title
- Martin Heidegger and Media Studies
- Introducing the Fractal Character of Dasein in the Digital Age
- 1 Toward a topologic condition
- 2 Wohnen in the topological space
- 3 When subject and object differ from Dasein
- 4 The medium is the space
- 5 Replacing the alphabetic νῦν (now) for the video-electronic ἀεί (ever, unceasing)
- 6 The limits of a mediated existence
- 7 Digital Gegenstände
- The Manual: Heidegger and Fundamental Oto-cheiro-logy I
- 1 Announcement: media res and mediality
- 2 A history of monstration and danger
- 3 The singular hand and the typewriter
- 4 The tool of tools: mnemotechnics and Gestell
- 5 Nearness: the kairos of the cheir
- Ereignis and Lichtung in the Production of a Galaxy Far Far Away
- 1 Living in being (and with things): Ereignis and Lichtung
- 2 The event of appropriation and engagement with things
- 3 Conclusion
- Feeling Photography: Exploring Care, Attunement, and Dwelling through the Work of Andre Kertész
- 1 Experiencing photography, doing phenomenology
- 2 André Kertész: a life
- 3 The camera, the thing
- 4 Feeling photography
- 5 As above, so below
- 6 Conclusion
- Self-Understanding in the Age of the Selfie: Kierkegaard, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Social Networks
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Heidegger and Social Media’s ‘Mouseclick Solidarity’
- 1 Introduction. The philosophical slug: philosophy doesn’t tweet well
- 2 Mindless chatter on social media: speaking the unspeakable
- 3 The essence of technology is nothing technological: the enframing qualities of social media
- 4 Mouseclick-solidarity and the digital sublime
- 5 Conclusion: the solidarity toolbox
- Thinking Architecture through Heidegger’s Views
- 1 Heidegger for architecture
- 2 Revealing the existent (the concept of aletheia)
- 3 Sculpting in time: from Michelangelo to Tarkovsky
- 4 Dwelling in the cinematic frame
- 5 Architecture practicing nostalgia
- 6 Conclusion
- Take a Wander in My Shoes: Of Zombeing, Twombs, and Equipmentality
- 1 Equip-mentality/equipment-ality
- 2 His head’s gone
- 3 The Walking Dead and its equipmental turning toward Zombeing
- 4 Zombeing and time
- 5 Heidegger’s mishandling of zombies
- Heidegger’s Topology in the World/s of Ubiquitous Computing
- 1 Being-in(-the-world)
- 2 Being-with
- 3 Thingliness
- 4 Ge-Stell
- 5 Dwelling
- 6 Conclusion: Toward a techno-social ontology of place/s
- A Decisive Mediation: Heidegger, Media Studies, and Ethics*
- 1 An epistemological problem: media
- 2 A political problem: Heidegger
- 3 Ethics as mediation
- 4 A Decisive mediation
- From Ontology to Organology: Heidegger and Stiegler on the Danger and Ambiguity of Technology and Technical Media
- 1 Heidegger on the essence of technology
- 2 The essence of modern technology as enframing
- 3 The danger and the saving power of technology in Heidegger
- 4 The ambiguity of technology in Heidegger
- 5 Stiegler on the original technicity of being-there
- 6 Retentional finitude and the original technicity of time
- 7 Being-there as individuation and man as an organological being
- 8 The human condition as original default and man as a pharmacological being
- 9 Loss of the original default: organo-pharmacological reinterpretation of the danger
- 10 The danger of technology as proletarianization and the ruination of the original default
- 11 By way of a conclusion
- Author Biographies
Speaking the Unspeakable: Heidegger and Social Media’s ‘Mouseclick Solidarity’
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1Introduction. The philosophical slug: philosophy doesn’t tweet well
There is a meme that I like to show my first-year students: it shows the philosopher Plato as in Raphael’s famous “School of Athens” painting in the Vatican in Rome, pointing skywards, one assumes to some higher truth. Only the meme shows Twitter’s little blue bird hovering above the philosopher’s trigger finger: it has taken the place of the higher truth Plato is pointing to. We can read this meme in two ways: on the one hand it points to the general reverence for social media dominating the public, as well as the academic imagination. Even the most mundane of businesses are asking their customers to “like” them on Facebook, politicians tweet passionately (if not always honestly)1, and since the Arab Spring there has been a flurry of research into just how much exactly social media have aided protest movements around the world (a point we will return to). But it is the other reading that I am interested in, for now: the juxtaposition of philosophy and social media discourse. To my mind, philosophy doesn’t tweet well.
Plato himself is the perfect example. None of Plato’s philosophical arguments, painstakingly pursued in lengthy dialogues between Socrates and one or more of his students, could have taken place within the confines of a social media app. Twitter, for one, only offers its users 140 characters per Tweet2, but Facebook and its contender sites are similarly designed to...
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the editors
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Series Title
- Martin Heidegger and Media Studies
- Introducing the Fractal Character of Dasein in the Digital Age
- 1 Toward a topologic condition
- 2 Wohnen in the topological space
- 3 When subject and object differ from Dasein
- 4 The medium is the space
- 5 Replacing the alphabetic νῦν (now) for the video-electronic ἀεί (ever, unceasing)
- 6 The limits of a mediated existence
- 7 Digital Gegenstände
- The Manual: Heidegger and Fundamental Oto-cheiro-logy I
- 1 Announcement: media res and mediality
- 2 A history of monstration and danger
- 3 The singular hand and the typewriter
- 4 The tool of tools: mnemotechnics and Gestell
- 5 Nearness: the kairos of the cheir
- Ereignis and Lichtung in the Production of a Galaxy Far Far Away
- 1 Living in being (and with things): Ereignis and Lichtung
- 2 The event of appropriation and engagement with things
- 3 Conclusion
- Feeling Photography: Exploring Care, Attunement, and Dwelling through the Work of Andre Kertész
- 1 Experiencing photography, doing phenomenology
- 2 André Kertész: a life
- 3 The camera, the thing
- 4 Feeling photography
- 5 As above, so below
- 6 Conclusion
- Self-Understanding in the Age of the Selfie: Kierkegaard, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Social Networks
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Heidegger and Social Media’s ‘Mouseclick Solidarity’
- 1 Introduction. The philosophical slug: philosophy doesn’t tweet well
- 2 Mindless chatter on social media: speaking the unspeakable
- 3 The essence of technology is nothing technological: the enframing qualities of social media
- 4 Mouseclick-solidarity and the digital sublime
- 5 Conclusion: the solidarity toolbox
- Thinking Architecture through Heidegger’s Views
- 1 Heidegger for architecture
- 2 Revealing the existent (the concept of aletheia)
- 3 Sculpting in time: from Michelangelo to Tarkovsky
- 4 Dwelling in the cinematic frame
- 5 Architecture practicing nostalgia
- 6 Conclusion
- Take a Wander in My Shoes: Of Zombeing, Twombs, and Equipmentality
- 1 Equip-mentality/equipment-ality
- 2 His head’s gone
- 3 The Walking Dead and its equipmental turning toward Zombeing
- 4 Zombeing and time
- 5 Heidegger’s mishandling of zombies
- Heidegger’s Topology in the World/s of Ubiquitous Computing
- 1 Being-in(-the-world)
- 2 Being-with
- 3 Thingliness
- 4 Ge-Stell
- 5 Dwelling
- 6 Conclusion: Toward a techno-social ontology of place/s
- A Decisive Mediation: Heidegger, Media Studies, and Ethics*
- 1 An epistemological problem: media
- 2 A political problem: Heidegger
- 3 Ethics as mediation
- 4 A Decisive mediation
- From Ontology to Organology: Heidegger and Stiegler on the Danger and Ambiguity of Technology and Technical Media
- 1 Heidegger on the essence of technology
- 2 The essence of modern technology as enframing
- 3 The danger and the saving power of technology in Heidegger
- 4 The ambiguity of technology in Heidegger
- 5 Stiegler on the original technicity of being-there
- 6 Retentional finitude and the original technicity of time
- 7 Being-there as individuation and man as an organological being
- 8 The human condition as original default and man as a pharmacological being
- 9 Loss of the original default: organo-pharmacological reinterpretation of the danger
- 10 The danger of technology as proletarianization and the ruination of the original default
- 11 By way of a conclusion
- Author Biographies