> “In Heidegger’s later work, he argues that technology in the modern metaphysical tradition tends to “provoke,” “force out,” and “challenge forth” the world, s

> “In Heidegger’s later work, he argues that technology in the modern metaphysical tradition tends to “provoke,” “force out,” and “challenge forth” the world, such that the primary intention is to “force” the world to yield energy. Heidegger calls this “the essence of technology,” and it is this essence, he says, that constitutes the “culmination of modern metaphysics.” The philosopher Bruce Foltz describes how this perceptual rupture plays out in Heidegger’s work: “[T]o be’ is ‘to be a resource,’ that is to be ‘in stock,’ in supply, ready for delivery.” To say that modern metaphysics culminates in technology is to say that there are tight and dense entanglements between the modern narrative of separation and technology. The perfectly-straight concrete road cut through a boreal forest is a thought structure “concretely” articulated, and in turn it seeds the imagination with opportunities of how to encounter (or use) that forest in ways unthinkable - and thus unreal - without the road. Likewise, a dam built into a salmon river is abstract thought physically articulated; in turn, the presence of the physical structure gathers the imagination around particularly mechanistic, utilitarian opportunities for encountering the river. Narrative and technology reinforce one another in powerful feedback loops, each contributing their share to revealing the world in a particular manner.” — Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us, and Us in the Wild, by Martin Lee Mueller