We cannot allow the depredations of the technological attitude, as depicted by Ellul, Mumford, Bookchin, Heidegger, and others, to dominate the scene.14 What Heidegger calls Ge-stell, or enframing, is the rendering of all aspects of the world into “standing reserve”: a condition of availability and revealing that may retain poetic or creative elements but which, in the event, most often indicates a kind of instrumental use-value calculus of resources both natural and human.15 The forest is seen as lumber, the river as electric power, the human as … what? Perhaps a perpetual gig worker, victim
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