Gestell

7 To quote Heidegger, according to ordinary usage, the word Gestell [frame] means some kind of apparatus, e.g., a bookrack.

Notes on 'The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger' 2005

Heidegger described the essence of modern technology as Gestell, or "enframing."

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Heidegger described the essence of modern technology as Gestell, or "enframing."

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I think that his criticism of Gestell would also apply to liberal or conservative openness, which should be balanced, in my view, with a capacity to keep things hidden or latent, if needed not to discover more atomic bombs, etc.

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I think that his criticism of Gestell would also apply to liberal or conservative openness, which should be balanced, in my view, with a capacity to keep things hidden or latent, if needed not to discover more atomic bombs, etc.

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He calls this technological mood enframing (Gestell in German).

Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology Introna, Lucas 2005

Gestell, You seem to think that conservatives march lockstep in dogma.

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2010