On Technology and the Sinking House.

On Technology and the Sinking House

Heidegger refers to the "standing reserve": the source of information that our technology provides us with.

In any situation wherein any sense of personal identity is attributed to an item of technology, a process of concealment may ensue. This concealment may be brought about by a process that Jung calls participation mystique and subjectivisation of the object: The computer or any other instrument takes on a quality that may be entirely unique. It may become itself an authority that hypnotises the individual into thinking in accordance with the machine's own program.
Something as banal as the notion of ownership may obscure physical, sensory reality in pure abstraction.

Standing reserve is responsible for many false constructs and "truths". Such a construct will be deconstructed in the process of the Sinking House.

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