REFLECTING

ON
TECHNOLOGY
addresses
the demands of modern
living and has become a
necessity
• Technology has its own benefits and adverse effect

• Helps to provide more power to the

industries and homes
• Contributes a very small amount of
emissions into the atmosphere
which can cause many
environmental problems such as
global warming
Three Starting
Points in Reflecting
on Technology
Alarmist
Conservative
Liberal Perspective
 ALARMIST
Dismisses outright continuance of the use of modern technology to
preserve the state of nature where balance is maintained
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)
CONSERVATIVE
It accepts that use of modern technology to
a certain extent only and requires a long
term rigorous study of the benefits and
possible adverse effects on the people and
the environment
LIBERAL PERSPECTI
Based on practicality and expediency
The use of modern technology is high
encouraged for as long as it answers the
needs of the society
TECHNOLOGY AS
REVEALING
Reflected on technology in
Questions Concerning Technology

Offered a paradigm and method

to come to grips with the
essence of technology
Production of something like a tool
to meet the requirements of living
 When synthesized ideas are translated in the
creation of something with the hope of having come
up with the answer or solution
is nothing without
its maker and user
• Another kind of bringing forth that is free from human intervention
• Highest form of bringing forth

• Truth or disclosure
• It is a Greek word, translated as “unclosedness” or
“unconcealedness”
 Ancient Modern
Technology Technology
Limited to the It exploits,
use of what is manipulates alters and
provided in compromises the
nature integrity of nature

It revealed that
possibilities in people and
imposes upon and demands from nature are reduced to
nature also called as being resources,
something that can be
disposed if needed and
called upon if needed
ENFRAMING
• Gestell in German means framework
stellen – “to put” or “to place”
Ge- - “gathering” or “collection”
• Introduced by Martin Heidegger
• Enframing means that way of revealing which holds
sway in the essence of modern technology and
which is itself nothing technological
 Market
Economy

Dualism Monoculture

Enframing
UALISM • “I THINK,THEREFORE I AM”
- Rene Descartes

• The subject has full control

over almost anything.

• The object is regarded as

standing reserve.
MARKET ECONOMY
• Most of the explorations and inventions
were motivated by desire for more profit.

• The technologies that provide energy for

industries and residences impose on and
demand so much from nature.

• Nature is compromised for the sake of

making the country competitive in the
global market economy.
 • The facility to move and
communicate globally in real time
has accelerated the pace of
globalization.

• Market economy has spread its

influence in the form of
consumerism and materialism.

MONOCULTURE
 HOPE IN BRINGING FORTH
• MODERN TECHNOLOGY is
nothing without the user
• The real beauty of technology
lies in its capacity to reveal what
is hidden
Technology connects the subject and the object
Modern technology must be regulated to be in sync
with the rhythm of what gives life to
 DUALISM
MARKET MONOCULTURE
ECONOMY

SUBJECTIVITY