Potenza e metamorfosi. Heidegger e l’ambiguità della tecnica

Power and Metamorphosis. Heidegger and the Ambiguity of Technique · The paper aims to outline, on the basis of Heidegger’s reflections on technique, a metamorphic ontology of technique, understanding the concept of metamorphosis in the sense of Aristotelian metabolé. In fact, Heidegger discovers in technique, not only a factor of extraordinary anthropological transformation and operational dominion over the world, but a true metaphysical power that acts on the principle of movement, on the arché metabolès, to the detriment of any teleological reference. Dissolving every possible télos in the absolute domain of instrumental equivalence, technique, on the one hand, in Jüngerian fashion, mobilizes the real by imprinting on it the dynamic form of an incessant operational imbalance (the form of work), and on the other stabilizes it through rational and functional schemes. Within this framework, the theme of the ambiguity of technique will be reinterpreted in the sense of the coexistence in it on the one hand of the principle of the total feasibility and metabolic metamorphosis of the real, and on the other of the aletheiological movement of coming-to-presence and the emergence of difference as Austrag in relation to the thought of the Ereignis.