Not exact matches
Such an ontology formed the basis for the Enlightenment and now governs the completely profane
mode of existence of modern scientific man.
It must be said,
of course, in order not to blur the fallacy in Bergson's method, that he chose intuition as being a
mode of apprehension most appropriate to a concern with internal relations precisely because he failed to note or to acknowledge the structural or contextual character
of such relations as an external pattern
of existence as well.
Not only are the stages
of preaxial development treated only formally and the axial cultures
of China and Persia wholly omitted, but also developments in Greece and Palestine have been dealt with schematically in
such a way as to ignore other
modes of existence which took shape within them.
Such transformations, however, must necessarily involve a transformed
mode of communal
existence, a renewed intersubjectivity intentionally open to multiple forms
of well - being.
Technology is, in essence, a
mode of human
existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that
such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»
Works
such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery
of disaster porn, planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate, in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective
modes, the racial politics, colonial histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions
of progress that underpin its entire
existence.