dan piepenbring on heidegger against the birkerts kindle argument
Read this post on if:book today re: using Heidegger to contest Birkerts’ arguments against the Kindle. Not too interested in that argument, but Heidegger’s terms here resonate somewhat with me. The idea of “readiness-to-hand” and the way all tools exist in a network/environment connects with Gibson’s idea of affordances. Here’s Piepenbring’s gloss on Heidegger:
In his [...]