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Our era is characterized by Gestall: the multiplicity of differences which characterize Being are enframed as a standing reserve. As everything is leveled into raw material for technological ordering, industrial agriculture becomes synonymous with atomic weaponry

Belu 10 Dana, Department of Philosophy California State University, Inquiry Vol. 53 Issue 1, pg. 4-5. “Heidegger’s Aporetic Ontology of Technology,” February 2010

Machine technology is...the production of hydrogen bombs.

The purposes and possibilities for energy generation are channeled through technological thinking; all Beings can be reduced to an energy source

O’Brien 4 (Mahon, Professor of Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland, “Commentary on Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology,” Thinking Together. Proceedings of the IWM Junior Fellows' Conference, http://www.iwm.at/publ-jvc/jc-16-01.pdf)

It is a charge which...radically different filtration systems.

Even debate is controlled by Gestall: by treating the resolution as self-evident and subordinating the truth of the resolution to the efficiency-maximizing goals of traditional policy debate, revealing in debate is severed in the name of technological massification

Heidegger 53 Martin, Introduction to Metaphysics trans. Fried and Polt (Yale University Press: 2000), pp. 49-53

1. One decisive aspect is...exaggeration and a figure of speech

Political theories attempt to render the world calculable by inescapable simplification that erases the possibility of truth

Dillon 96 Michael, professor Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster, The Politics of Security, pp. 75-76

I recognise the danger...singularity of the political.

Technological enframing becomes intelligibility itself—this reduces the value to life to mere standing reserve

Thomson 4 (Iain, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of New Mexico. “Ontology and Ethics at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy”, published in Ecophenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself copyright 03. PDF accessed July 2, 2008  p. 396)

The later Heidegger's...attention through technological means.

This authorizes and drives mass killings—technology is an organizational force that sanctions genocide in the name of pure order

Szabo 2Matt Szabo, PhD Candidate in Geography at The University of Manchester, “Managerial ecology: Zygmunt Bauman and the gardening culture of modernity,” Environments, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2002, p. proquest

The leitmotif of...circumstances are less visible

Thus, Ryan and I let the resolution be: The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on and/or substantially increase financial incentives for energy production in the United States of one or more of the following: coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, wind power.

The metaphysical desire to order the world creates abstract ideals and calls them reality. These abstract ideals are then used to arrange reality, which turns us into timeless objects, forgetting Being. This centering of the subject causes humanity to view itself as the most important raw material, to be infinitely optimized by global systems

Douzinas 2k Costas, Professor of Law and Head of the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century, p. 201-09)

Martin Heidegger, one of the...horrors of metaphysical arrogance?

The rapacious drive to secure energy is a symptom of “challenging-forth,” a mindset that renders natures disposable. By thinking about technologies in different ways, we can avoid these technological calamities

Waddington 5 A Field Guide to Heidegger: Understanding 'The Question concerning Technology' more by David Waddington Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2005 http://concordia.academia.edu/DavidWaddington/Papers/538046/A_Field_Guide_to_Heidegger_Understanding_The_Question_concerning_Technology

Most essays on technology...in the open space of destining'

Only a god can save us --  we should read our possibilities as debaters ontologically. We need to open ourselves up to the possibilities of being disclosing itself to us non-technologically

Heidegger and Spiegel 66. “Heidegger, Der Spiegel Interview”  Philosophy Today 20 (Whiter 1976): 267-284. Scanned from Gunther Neske and Emil Kettering (eds), Martin Heidegger and National Socialism, New York: Paragon House, 1990, pp. 41-66.

SPIEGEL: You apparently see...HEIDEGGER: But not directly.

Debate’s monolithic focus on action as a mode of revealing is symptomatic of technological thought – the only solution is a non-willful doing grounded in reflective thinking

Thiele 95 (Leslie Paul Thiele, professor of political science at the University of Florida. Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. 1995 (pp. 211-212))

Heidegger summarizes the problem...its hold is loosened.

Ontology first – one cannot say anything about what is without already having made assumptions about the is as such

Dillon 99 Michael, “The Scandal of the Refugee: Some Reflections on the ‘Inter’ of International Relations and Continental Thought,” in Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics, eds. David Campbell and Michael Shapiro (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999) pg. 97-99

As Heidegger-himself an...driven reappraisal of modern political thought.