Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jacques Ellul, Gestell, Martin Heidegger

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

[modern] technology nullifies what it regards as nothing, of no account. dirk leach, technik. Heidegger: unrestricted development of technology has the ability to estrange us from the world, each other and ourselves. Must understand how and why the experience of modernity is permitted to unfold in this way. The real danger of technology, for leach, is this nullifying force made manifest in the world through a way of being that results in the depletion of meaningful life. With leach, the development of modern technology and our current orientation to it, nullifies what is precious to us without even knowing it. All that is regarded is worthless, without value, goes unsupported and undeveloped in the world we create. The argument goes that not only are we left estranged from the technical world, but also from all this development overlooks and does not develop. Non-exploitative relationship to nature, and non-instrumental relationships to other people.