-----Original Message----- From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 2:43 pm Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: metaphors we live bysee if you can stop it's transmission before it reaches the swimming pool
---- Heidegger on "its". From "Time and Being" ... since the itsiness of being there depends on its object, the subject affirms the thinghood of technology. It´s an object. It´s _merely_ an object, or thing. Its itsiness reveals its own possession as a being there out of its own world. It´s fascinating to see how the itsiness of it escapes Jaspers... JLS ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html