While Vattimo agrees with Heidegger’s estimation of technology in a negative sense, he sees liberating opportunities within it by taking into account the kinds of communications technology Heidegger did not get to witness and consider in detail. Vattimo states, “it is not in the world of machines and engines that humanity and being can shed the mantles of subject and object, but in the world of generalized communication.”

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