Introduction Martin Heidegger was, between his existential analytic and analysis of language, a critic of technology. To Heidegger technology is a part of “human being’s nature” (tekhne), a way of handling and revealing the nature and the world. But the “modern technology”[1] takes hold of this revealing process and throws man…

When the first films came out at the end of 19th century they were mostly treated as a light and quickly consumable entertainment. This was of course partly due to the big and clumsy technology and the means of presentation — the films, or short sequences, were shown in an…