Neuromantic (philosophy)

Culture in Mind: Bradd Shore on Heideggerian "enframing"

According to the anthropologist Bradd Shorre, the neuromantic[1] refers to the cybernetic frame of mind excited among computer enthusiasts as they experience what Michael Heim called "the all-at-once simultaneity of totalizing presentness".[2] Shorre explains "the sense of mastery over language resources that word processing bestows on the experienced user is intimately related to Heidegger's notion of enframing (Bestellen), a subjection of the world to human will that Heidegger saw as a characteristic of all modern technology."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Shore, Bradd (1996), Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning, Oxford University Press, pp. 143–4
  2. ↑ Heim, Michael (1987), Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
  3. ↑ Heidegger, Martin (1977), The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, New York: Harper & Row


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