Making I Thinking

Martin Heidegger believed, “mortals nurse and nurture the things that grow, and specially construct the things that do not grow.” Further, he continually distinguished the “thing” from mere “object,” suggesting that the object is a privative state of the thing, occurring only when things are “placed before people” in either “immediate perception,” or through the recollective act of “representation.” The he first step toward thinking as making is ceasing to be aware of one’s own thinking. In describing the limits of representation, Heidegger pointed to the familiar visual metaphors of thinking. Making is not limited to “proof of concept;” rather, it is afforded a power of its own; here, making becomes a modality of thought and the activation of what Gilles Deleuze has called “active super-conscious faculty.” Observing the influence of modern technology, Heidegger noted a tendency to view “discoveries” primarily as products generated by the work of "violent machinery and intricate devices".