Villadsen, Kaspar
Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology: does Gestell ‘correspond perfectly’ to dispositif? (2024) Journal of Political Power
DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2024.2390408
Abstract
This article compares Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology, taking its clue from Agamben’s claim that Gestell and dispositif are ‘perfectly corresponding’ concepts. So far, however, the task of a detailed comparison of Gestell and dispositif remains unresolved. At first glance, the two terms appear compatible, designating how we moderns began objectifying nature as well as ourselves as manipulatable raw material. Significant for the discussion is Heidegger’s and Foucault’s contrasting readings of Nietzsche – the ‘last metaphysician’ versus ‘the first genealogist’ which present modern technology as humanity’s nearly inescapable condition, or as ‘functionally indeterminant’, evolving in multiple, intersecting, and unexpected ways. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Author Keywords
dispositif; Foucault; Gestell; Heidegger; modern technology
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