DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2015.v03i04.013

Pages: 903-914

This article is a philosophical reflection on the impact of modern technology on human language and the relevance of poetry and art as basic forms of truth-revealing of the ontological significance of entities. The reflection does not advocate for a Luddite’s regard to technology; however, it describes modern technology as a fundamental aspect of modern subjects, which entails both positive and negative implications on language as a basic human fact. The article argues on the basis that information and communication technologies (ICTs)relentlessly transform human language and human creativity into measurable units of information and production for consumption, while obscuring its ontological and disclosive nature. As a response to technological enframing, it is imperative for art and poetry (as non-manipulative forms of disclosure of entities) to break with technological calculative thinking, and enucleate the meaning of modern technology to its ultimate end, which is basically to correctly serve human purpose and nature in general. Appropriation of Heidegger’s thought in this article places my reflections on ICTs, language (poetry) and arton a metaphysical level meriting a philosophical reflection.