In sections 85 and 86 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read of the four “extensions” of metaphysics that lead to our ingrained thinking about being and beyng. Primary among these is the compulsion to make beingness present and relate to it as presence, which culminates in a host of symptoms and effects….

Reading thru the middle of section 85 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we wade through meditations on the overcoming of metaphysics, or “the knowledge of the ‘being’ of beings.” This leads to a variety of musings on how liberalism is the real world manifestation of the metaphysical heritage, so the process of ending…

We begin a new super section of the book, 3: The Interplay, and read about the forms of historical meditation, the passing of the ball from the first to the other beginning, and logic as a vestige of the powerlessness of thinking. This gives rise to discussions on how to free thought of logic, or…

In the final passages of section 80, Heidegger asks, “what is ‘more sure’: the immediate, naive description or the exact experiment?,” and then answers, “the former, because there theory is presupposed ‘less’.” Discussing this startling proposition, we conclude super section 2, The Resonating. Along the way we discuss “teaching to the test,” liberal education’s failure…

In sections 78 and 79 we read of the transformation of experience into a mathematico-rational measuring experiment opposed to “arbitrary, merely curiosity-motivated exploration of an indeterminately represented domain.” We spin off from these speculations to look at how the liberal/non-liberal dichotomy involves different perspectives on freedom of speech and law and order on a gradient…

In sections 77 and 78 we read of the ways in which experience and experiment inter-relate on a spectrum via anticipatory grasping, a desire for an exposition of regulatory, testing, inputting, placing objects in temptation, and the establishment of an essential objective domain accessible only through quantitative rules. We then discuss how anxiety plays into…

We finally conclude section 76 with a short section about newspaper science (the humanities) and machine science (the natural sciences). Heidegger states that “newspaper and machine are meant here…as the impelling modes of that final objectification…which sucks all the substantiveness out of beings, leaving them mere occasions for lived experience.” After parsing this all out,…

We continue going through section 76 with readings on the universities becoming business establishments bent on system-building erudition, the hidden goal of complete boredom at scientific innovation, and how the great unsettlement comes from essential knowledge, not powerlessness or hopelessness. We conclude with discussions of the degradations of the universities via the rot of money,…

We conclude Section 74 which includes explications on how historiology seeks to avoid history by standardizing interpretative viewpoints, how “newspaper science” and “humanities departments” have institutionalized knowledge, and how the closure against nature as much as history is due to technicism self-interpreting as “organic worldview.” We conclude with thoughts on the new era of unknowing,…

We continue reading through section 74 about science’s failure to determine the essential beings in its area of study, about its politicized “meaning-conferrals,” and about historiology as a comparative method of erasing difference. We then look at some recent media stories as examples of a liberalized (aka performatively politicized) epistemology as well as the way…