- Title
- Misogynology and the impossibility of dwelling
- Creator
- Hammond, Richard
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Thesis; PhD
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155309
- Identifier
- vital:11259
- Identifier
- https://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2713249
- Abstract
- For Martin Heidegger, the essence of technology—Ge-stell—is a framing and ordering of the world that valorises instrumental-calculative thinking at the direct expense of other forms of thought. As being-in-the-world—a notion that the later Heidegger would re-interpret as belonging-to Being as the mortal of the fourfold—human being is given over to the logos of framing and ordering: technology. In the technological age, human being is ordered into an inauthentic relationship with itself, its environment, and with Being itself. Yet the gatheringsaying of the modern logos is more than a framing of the cosmos into standing reserve, it is also a peculiarly gendered framing of human being. In this thesis I claim that while Heidegger was oblivious to the inherently masculinist aspect of the Western tradition, his thought provides an effective theoretical basis to interrogate invisible systemic gender inequality. In order to demonstrate this I develop an account of Heidegger’s critique of technology by tracing the origins of the critique from Heidegger’s early thinking in Being and Time onwards. This genealogical approach demonstrates the centrality of Heidegger’s critique of technology to his broader project, and facilitates an exploration of the fourfold as a heuristic from which an originary sense of Being (as dwelling) can emerge. By employing Heidegger’s critique of technology to highlight the metaphysical assumptions that frame mainstream debates on pornography, I demonstrate that the pornification of popular culture—now largely synonymous with rape culture—can be interpreted as a significant aspect of the logos of Ge-stell. I argue that rather than remain the purview of masculine privilege, the seeming impossibility of dwelling in the modern age reveals the techno-misogynological framing of Ge-stell.; Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Federation University Australia
- Rights
- Copyright Richard Hammond
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Misogynology; Ge-stell; Martin Heidegger
- Full Text
- Thesis Supervisor
- Mummery, Jane
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