Saturday, 5 July 2025

Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) is the technological worldview that turns everything—including humans and nature—into standing reserve. Just stuff to be optimized, extracted, managed. So yeah, you’re saying that even our frameworks of Sorge (concern or care) and knowledge and health etc. are potentially contaminated by this totalizing logic. They are are just another kind of instrumentalization if we’re not careful.

You're pointing out that knowledge and understanding are not neutral—they're practices, or better, co-practices, shaped by relations and technologies, and enframed by the metaphysical assumptions of the culture producing them. Which, yes, absolutely implicates them in the grand trifecta of doom: ecocide, genocide, and geocide.

And when you say “co-practices,” invoking Simondon, I assume you're referencing his ontology of individuation—the idea that beings become in relation, not in isolation, and that our epistemologies (how we know) are embedded in transductive processes—always relational, always co-constituting.

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