Letting Things Be for Themselves

Keiling, Tobias

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“…In their Introduction, the editors of the volume contrast Gestell and Gelassenheit as "opposing ideas in Heidegger's analysis of technology whereby the releasement characteristic of Gelassenheit counters the dangers of our technological framing of the world via Gestell" (Merwin, Wendland, Hadjioannou 2018, 1 -2). In the same volume, see alsoCrowell (2018) andKeiling (2018). However, if it is not assured that Gelassenheit, which is not an act of will, "releases us from the danger of technology"(Merwin, Wendland, Hadjioannou 2018, 9), the preliminary philosophical question is whether under the global dominance of technology called by Heidegger Gestell any releasement is possible, at all, and what should happen, or change, for that to be possible.…”

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Poverty and Mortality under the Dominance of Technology

Carbone¹

2023

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Relying on Heidegger's recently issued Black Notebooks, where the "shepherd of being" qua "mortal" is discussed as the "future man", this paper tackles poverty and mortality, along with their mutual bond, in light of the tension established by Heidegger between Gestell and Ereignis, namely, between the global dominance of technology and the liberation of earth from the despotic dominion of human beings. First, light is cast upon the dominance of technology, which "distorts" the Ereignis of the world, which is yet to arrive, by holding back its very arrival. Second, the focus shifts to the philosophical meaning of poverty, which relies on mortality understood as radical dispossession. Since poverty is the essential feature of the "future man", the "shepherd of being", as well as the basis for a different take on our use of technological devices, the innermost link between poverty and technology is also addressed. Furthermore, the comparison with Pope Francis's two recent encyclicals is established, in order to highlight the specific philosophical meaning conferred to poverty by Heidegger, especially with respect to our behavior toward technology.

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Yolgörmez

2024

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

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This chapter builds on the phenomena of large language models (LLMs) to crystallize the outlines of a sociology of machines. LLMs pose many problems to our existing conceptions, especially the notion of agency in sociology, but at the same time present possibilities for developing a different kind of thinking. This chapter will problematize singular conceptions of agency that presuppose an individual actor, and develops an approach to understanding agency as a processual and collective achievement that includes human-machine socialities of different kinds. In discussing machine agencies, the chapter will first consider the figurations of human-machine relations that condition the possibility and stability of these models. Then, it will think through an event of machine authorship to both expose the limits of contemporary notions of agency and to propose a new way of looking at human-machine relations. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the possibility of a sociology of machines founded on creative and playful methodologies and suggests this as a way to resist the dominant forms in which technology is commonly conceived.

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Letting Things Be for Themselves

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