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How Is Technology A Mode of Revealing
How Is Technology A Mode of Revealing
Enframing is a way of revelation in Heidegger's philosophy in which things are only interpretable
in terms of flexibility, reliability, efficiency, utility, and so on. We are ultimately driven into a particular
conception of things in the essence of modern technology, in which we must comprehend them in terms
of standing reserve through enframing. Unconcealment, on the other hand, occurs through art and is a
way of unveiling in which objects are rendered interpretable as they are in themselves and make sense
to us. That is to say that art acts as a way of enframing through disclosing or revealing the truth and
things as they are in themselves, rather than revealing them as they are. Art shifts our understanding of
things from one of standing reserve to one of truth, allowing us to emotionally engage with something
that is complicated for us to appreciate with our minds alone.