The Way of World, or the Critique of Cosmo-Technics

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Laotse, Tao Te Ching, trans. Derek Lin (Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2006), p.29. 2 Dgen, ‘Uji’, Sh b genz , trans. Eid Shiman Rshi and Charles Vacher (Fourgeres: encre marin, 1997), p.51. 3 Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, trans. Peter D. Hertz (New York: Harper and Row, 1961), p.92. 4 Jean-Luc Nancy, The Creation of the World or Globalization, trans. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007), p.94. 5 Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper Collins, 1971), p.176. 6 Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000). 7 Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track, trans. Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p.219; translation modified. 8 Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, trans. Ben Fowkes (London: Penguin, 1976), p.151. 9 Karl Marx, Capital, p.151. 10 Martin Heidegger, On The Way to Language, trans. Peter D. Hertz (New York: HarperCollins, 1971), pp.1-54. 11 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999), p.334; translation modified. 12 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, p. 170 13 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, p.173. 14 Martin Heidegger, ‘Letter on Humanism’, in Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p.340. 15 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, p.170. 16 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, pp.187-188. 17 Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness, trans. Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary (London and New York: Continuum, 2006), p.166. 18 The difference between negation and nihilation can perhaps be thought in the following way. Nihilation is neither positive nor negative, and refers instead to the force of das Mögliche, of that which has the force, or the ability, to open, always futurally, the play of possibilities. Negation comes into play, so to speak, within this already opened realm of the possible, specifically at the moment when what is possible is let be valid. Negation ‘becomes possible’ when being comes to stand as a being, and thus to have a value of presence (or absence) and the validity of being present. In short, in its clearing or emptying, nihilation renders negation, as well as positing and affirmation, possible. The distinction here is between the force of rendering possible, which frees the futural and emptying play of time-space, and the force of negativity, which works in relation to what has already been allowed to stand as a being. 19 Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy, p.336. 20 Dgen, ‘Uji’; Dgen, ‘Bush’, Sh b genz , trans. Eid Shiman Rshi and Charles Vacher (Fougeres: encre marin, 2002). 21 Dgen, ‘Bussh’, p.17. 22 Dgen, ‘Uji’, p.49. 23 Dgen, ‘Uji’, p.85. 24 Dgen, ‘Bussh’, p.163. 25 Dgen, ‘Bussh’, p.47. 26 Jean-Luc Nancy, The Creation of the World, p.71.