thanks sally
"Equipment
(German: das Zeug)
A nearly un-translatable term, Heidegger's equipment can be thought of as a collective noun, so that it is never appropriate to call something 'an equipment'. Instead, its use often reflects it to mean a tool, or as an "in-order-to" for Dasein. Tools, in this collective sense, and in being ready-to-hand, always exist in a network of other tools and organizations, eg, the paper is on a desk in a room at a university. It is inappropriate usually to see such equipment on its own or as something present-at-hand"
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thanks steve
we have those at our local home depot. they are good resources and eye catching abstract groupings. it varies from tools in that its about fabricated material stock and the form of retail displayed materials. in this case metals. aluminum, bronze, steel. not hard to see where harry bertoia got his ideas for sound sculpture from. large scale steel fabricators use cool storage racks in their shops.
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"Equipment
(German: das Zeug)
A nearly un-translatable term, Heidegger's equipment can be thought of as a collective noun, so that it is never appropriate to call something 'an equipment'. Instead, its use often reflects it to mean a tool, or as an "in-order-to" for Dasein. Tools, in this collective sense, and in being ready-to-hand, always exist in a network of other tools and organizations, eg, the paper is on a desk in a room at a university. It is inappropriate usually to see such equipment on its own or as something present-at-hand"
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thanks steve we have those at our local home depot. they are good resources and eye catching abstract groupings. it varies from tools in that its about fabricated material stock and the form of retail displayed materials. in this case metals. aluminum, bronze, steel. not hard to see where harry bertoia got his ideas for sound sculpture from. large scale steel fabricators use cool storage racks in their shops.
- bill 12-11-2007 6:49 pm