Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Avital Ronell, Endangerment, Martin Heidegger
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Martin heidegger lectured about aristotle biographic details don"t matter, what does matter is the philosophy they had. H was a original thinker, but arguably a man without ethics. Legitimized the nazi beliefs, and was a close participant in the nazi party. Sammuel levinas (ex jewish student) was conflicted because he both admired and could not forgive h. Approaches subject with his own understanding of nazi socialism. What concerns h is a free relationship to technology determined how we interact with technology. What is closest to us is hard to see what we think we know distorts. In h"s mind, nazi-ism was able to go further than the usa in terms of establishing our relationship with technology, americans are caught in the functions and manipulation. Nasi"s were not all about racial cleansing, more about wanting order within the chaos. Work is meaningful because h"s reluctance to answer questions.