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The Internet as a Heideggerian paradigm of modern technology: an argument against mythinformation

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From the perspective of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of technology, the Internet qualifies as a paradigm of modern technology, for it possesses all its essential properties to a very high degree: the setting-upon, the challenging revealing, the revealing of what-is as standing-reserve, and a multiple concealment. This article is dedicated to proving the truth of this statement through an analysis of the way in which the Internet satisfies in an exemplary way these properties of the essence of modern technology. Among the possible corollaries of this analysis, we will focus on showing how it constitutes an argument against mythinformation philosophies such as Sloterdijk’s, as we show that the Internet is not governed by an alleged non-dominant, dialogical, and cooperative operativity.

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Carabantes, M. The Internet as a Heideggerian paradigm of modern technology: an argument against mythinformation. AI & Soc 36, 695–703 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01143-x

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