We continue going through section 76 with readings on the universities becoming business establishments bent on system-building erudition, the hidden goal of complete boredom at scientific innovation, and how the great unsettlement comes from essential knowledge, not powerlessness or hopelessness. We conclude with discussions of the degradations of the universities via the rot of money,…

We conclude Section 74 which includes explications on how historiology seeks to avoid history by standardizing interpretative viewpoints, how “newspaper science” and “humanities departments” have institutionalized knowledge, and how the closure against nature as much as history is due to technicism self-interpreting as “organic worldview.” We conclude with thoughts on the new era of unknowing,…

We continue reading through section 74 about science’s failure to determine the essential beings in its area of study, about its politicized “meaning-conferrals,” and about historiology as a comparative method of erasing difference. We then look at some recent media stories as examples of a liberalized (aka performatively politicized) epistemology as well as the way…

In Section 74 we continue following Heidegger’s meditations on science as “knowledge of an essential truth experienced in advance.” Via science’s determinate direction of explainability, we are enmeshed in a nexus of cause-effect relations that places everything under its jurisdiction of explanation and produces historiological machination via the perpetual instituting of “correct findings.” We connect…

In sections 74 and 75 we read of “total mobilization” as the setting in motion and undermining of all previous contents of still-enduring formations, the priority of procedures and contrivances, and the pressing of the masses into service. This is the outcome of modern science as a derived instituting of knowledge that places what is…

Section 73 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) links “science” and the “abandonment by being.” Science has become the “conceptually pre-formed consequence of the interpretation of the beingness of beings under the guideline of thinking.” In short, a “concoction of ‘world-views’ composed of indiscriminately adopted forms of thought.” Heidegger says we must meditate on…

In section 72, we get an expansion of Nietzsche’s concept of nihilism from being without a goal (telos) to being the essential occurrence of the abandonment by being, aka machination, lived experience, and liberalism. Two “oppositional forms of nihilism” are discussed – Christianity and Bolshevism – whose “denial of a lack of goals” gives birth…

In the middle of section 69 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), we read more of the gigantic and how it is the incalculable in the form of the plight of the lack of a sense of a plight due to the distorted essence its “world as picture” and quantitative sense of time and…

We start section 69, entitled the Gigantic, and read about its being “quantity as quality” due to representation’s systematic spacialization and its hatred for limitations. This being-historical state in which “everything is humanly possible” manifests in liberalism’s fixation on what things represent and the anxiety that a limitless representational possibility can foster. Comparison is made…

In section 68 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about machination and lived experience reciprocally drive each other to the extreme (thereby extending the deformations of beingness), how the discovery of “nature” was prepared for by the supernatural, and how the attitude of imitating and continuing the same “believes itself to be…