Hugh Dubberly - Connecting Things
There is enough material in this article to fill a book - in fact, it may be a book, I am not sure about that. What I can say, is that it is slow reading, suitable perhaps, for teaching a college course.
The writing is dry - with little emotional content. As if it had been written for an academic journal.
Here are some quotes:
For Heidegger there is an aspect of the jug that is not captured by describing it as an entity or an object. The jug takes what is poured into it, and then pours the liquid out. The water and wine come from a rock spring or from the grape growing in the earth. The pouring out can quench thirst for humans or be a libation to the gods. So the jug connects humans, gods, earth and sky. It is this ‘gathering’ that makes the jug a thing. Heidegger refers to Old High German in which a thing means a gathering to deliberate on a matter under discussion. The jug, as thing, gathers together for a moment humans, gods, earth and sky.
Oracle product manager Tim Misner argues that, “All products want to be web-sites.
I can expand on that - people want to be web-sites also. As I am on this blog.
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