"Science only treats nature as a set of objects, and as such will never be able to embrace the real in its entirety (which, as we have said, includes the objects, but also what renders them to be as objects)."
from Martin #Heidegger's lecture "Science and Meditation", published in Essays and Lectures (in 1954), summarised by Etienne Klein https://etienneklein.fr/conferences-de-martin-heidegger/
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#science #requisition #philosophy #metaphysics
The unveiling that governs modern technology is a provocation by which nature is required to deliver an #energy that can be extracted and accumulated as such.
according to #Heidegger, in his lecture "The Question of Technique".
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#requisition #requisitioning #extractivism
Françoise #Dastur: "We must ask ourselves what constitutes the essence of theoretical science itself. #Heidegger shows in his lecture [of 1919] that the experience of the "thing", of what we call "reality", presupposes the objectification of life and a devitalisation of the living experience, in the sense of an eradication of the interpretation immediately given to the environment. The result of this process of devitalisation and disinterpretation is nothing other than the real in the form of the #data (Gegebenheit) which is in fact a false immediacy, a theoretical construct."
https://journals.openedition.org/noesis/264 @philosophy 🧶
#metaphysics #bigData #requisition #science #epistemology #supremacy #specism #beliefs #believe #technoCriticism #appropriation #seizing #taking #grabbing #grab
"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
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"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."
Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy
Estelle Platini