The Question of Technology
The Question of Technology
The Question of Technology
Martin Heidegger
2. In your daily experience of technology, what else is revealed to you aside from its
function?
“Questioning the piety of thought” is a process of knowing the truth of who we are as
beings in this world. It makes us think deeper about a certain idea and find answers we
never thought exists. It becomes a way to discover the truth about ourselves and the
world we live in. Questioning is one of the things we people always do. We are curious
by nature therefore we tend to have these questions about everything and these tiny
questions we ask, makes us find the right answers. These right answers make us
understand the world we live in. It also influences our perspective in life and our beliefs.
In this way, we are challenged by modern technology to approach nature “as an object of
research” to reveal or “order the real as standing reserve”. Heidegger refers to this as
enframing. Art provides us with a way out of enframing by bringing us closer to poieses
and further away from techne. Art activates human sensitivity if it even exists in an
individual. The use of imagination and actually seeing things the way they are is part of
poieses. We can easily understand the people’s desire if we look upon nature and not just
on technology because technology abuses the limited resources of nature. Art has a deep
and intensifying relationship with nature while technology has no concern on the limited
resources of nature that they easily exploit. Art can provide a way out of enframing if we
deeply reflect the vision of artist in our own point of view/view of the world and with the
help of that, we can see the real meaning of what is reality.