Dasein - Monoskop

212 PART III
Heidegger sees a link between modern technology (Technik),
which treats everything as controllable by a human subject, and
the modern conception and treatment of language. That technology
has an impact upon our relation towards language is illustrated by
Heidegger, for instance in the following passage:
The typewriter [Schreib-maschine, writing-machine] means an
invasion of the mechanism into the realm of words. ... The
typewriter is a signless cloud, i.e., a denying concealment despite
its intrusiveness, through which man's relation towards Being is
changed. 309
In another context, Heidegger suspects that "the languagemachine
will start using language, and will thus become the master
of man's essence". 310
The kind of conception of language that must emerge in the age
of technology is spelled out by Heidegger as follows:
Speaking is challenged to correspond in every respect to framing
[Ge-stell] in which all present beings can be commandeered.
Within framing, speaking turns into information. ... framing...
commandeers for its purposes a formalized language, the kind
of communication which "informs" man uniformly, that is, gives
him the form in which he is fitted into the technological-calculative
universe, and gradually abandons "natural language". ...
The "natural" aspect of language, which the will to formalization
still seems forced to concede for the time being, is not
experienced and understood in the light of the original nature
of language. ... Information theory conceives of the natural
aspect of language as a lack of formalization. 311
On another occasion Heidegger suggests that " Logistik has nothing
to do with philosophy" and that it amounts to "the mathematizing
of all thinking". Heidegger continues:
That one takes Logistik to be the philosophy, that one believes
one can say the least about the essence of something by way of
formulas, all this is connected to Europeanization. Logic has
been developed to such a level that it plays an uncanny role in
mathematical research (calculating and thinking machines). In