The subversion of technology

pp. 1-26

in: , Experiment and exploration: forms of world-disclosure, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

In the wake of the crisis of representation failure became the defining moment in many theories of science and Bildung. This section will, in an essayistic style, anticipate the argument that will be developed in more detail in the following sections. It will be shown to what extent many of the theories of science and Bildung were unable to investigate the conditions of failure in the absence of a logic capable of paradox, and had to repress the decisive role of technology in the processes of world disclosure, and thus, finally, remained trapped in the positivism they sought to distance themselves from. It is here that the discovery of the cunning nature of technology opens up a new understanding of world disclosure.