changelog @ tengrrl.com: C&W 2006 Presentation: the Heidegger . . .

I've been thinking about the Heidegger quote in my sleep it appears, and I can't help but think it's wrong or at least wrongly applied here. While I can clearly see ways that it applies to some of the items in the B column, I'm not at all sure that I can extend it to everything.

That means that I've spent the last hour digging for Heidegger. I have this shelf of theory books that I frequently think about trying to get rid of for shelf space. I can't bring myself to dumping them in the usual used books places though because there are some books there that would be very useful to a grad student. As a result, they just sit on my shelf over there, in my way. I pulled all of the anthologies off this morning, but didn't find any Heidegger essays sadly.

I checked the technorhet books, and while there are some that may help with this process, the Heidegger essay I need ("The Question Concerning Technology") was no where. So off to Amazon. $14.00 could get me The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. I just hate having to buy a whole book for one 32-page essay. :\ bleh.

So back to lazy research, and behold, I found the essay online! Okay, I know that this is some copyright violation, but I'm using it anyway. I compared it to the pages of the essay that Amazon has available online, and the transcription looks accurate. Also found an online guide to the essay which might be useful, but which at present is mostly pissing me off because of the silly, unexplained iconography.

Having not read anything, which is of course the worst time to try to guess what something means, I have this feeling, as I mentioned above, that it's not an either-or thing. If the Heidegger fits, it fits the columns in a post-structuralist both-and sort of way. I just haven't quite figured out how yet.

Sunday, April 23, 2006