Heidegger, ready-to-hand an object that is being used tends to recede in the user’s perception. So long as it is functioning well, a mouse tends to disappear in a user’s thoughts; the user’s experience is that the hand is directly manipulating the cursor upon the screen. The mouse is not thought of, or if it… Continue reading Breakage
Tag: Philosophy
Thrownness
Also known as Geworfenheit. Thrownness describes a human’s relation to time like being “thrown” into a world that is already in progress. Countless arbitrary aspects are bound up with the state of existence at its inception. We have a body that has certain aspects (gender, race, hair color) come into the world in certain contexts… Continue reading Thrownness