Technique

Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches technique mainly through his critique of Heidegger and of those who take up his themes. For him, claiming that we are dominated by technique is another way of erasing the social relation1. He notes that the Heideggerian critique of technē is taken up by ecologists and zadists2. Like them, Heidegger puts technique on trial, and he keeps doing so after the war, while sublimating military motorisation beyond what he calls "technicism"3. In Heidegger, technique provokes nature into being nothing but an object and grounds modern science. Dominique Pagani replies that it has existed since people first knapped flint4. He concludes that technology is not European, since flint and metal smelting come before it, and that it has universal value5. He defines it as the technique of the origins that has made a detour through theory6.

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3. 3Heidegger, or panzer-philosophy21 May 2021 · 12:13
4. 4Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature (Heidegger, Descartes)5 Mar 2022 · 5:50
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?9 Jul 2023 · 42:21
6. 6Worldliness in Clouscard: the clash of worlds?9 Jul 2023 · 1:25:15

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