In the Swarm by Han Byung-Chul; Butler Erik;

Author:Han, Byung-Chul; Butler, Erik;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paradigm shift; digitalization; digital communication; social media; fragmented individual; multitude; information fatigue syndrome; IFS; information overload; psychopolitics; respect; privacy; private life; internet; twitter; facebook; community; big data
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Heidegger’s world of “earth and sky, mortals and divinities” is also the world of the peasant or farmer. As a “mortal,” man is not one who acts [ein Handelnder]. Human being lacks the natality of a new beginning. Heidegger also conceives God as a deity of peasants, who hark and pay heed. God has a seat in the “altar corner” [Herrgottswinkel] of the “farmhouse in the Black Forest,” thanks to “the dwelling of peasants” [bäuerliches Wohnen].7 In “The Origin of the Work of Art,” Heidegger describes the shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh as those of a peasant. This amounts to a transfiguration of the agrarian world:

From out of the dark opening of the well-worn insides of the shoes the toil of the worker’s tread stares forth. In the crudely solid heaviness of the shoes accumulates the tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-stretching and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind. … The shoes vibrate with the silent call of the earth, its silent gift of the ripening grain, its unexplained self-refusal in the wintry field.8

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