A Question on Context, History and Technics
Philosophical thought no longer subscribes to a ‘history of being’ exterior to the architecture (or frame) of a historico-phenomenological method. Nonetheless, it remains an established and necessary technique of phenomenological method to suspend and fracture the concept and narrative of history (in both its empirical-conventional and structurally purposive or teleological forms). To what end? History is neither foreclosed nor disavowed, nor is the trajectory of history now fatefully limited to a set of contingent,
A New Technological Physis?
At the very end of One Way Street, Walter Benjamin writes:
Men as a species completed their development thousands of years ago; but mankind as a species is just beginning his. In technology, a physis is being organized through which mankind’s contact with the cosmos takes a new and different form from that which it had in nations and families. One need recall only the experience of velocities by virtue of