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====== GA65:59 – Falta de questionamento e encantamento ======

==== Casanova ====

Costuma-se denominar a era da “civilização” aquela era do des-encantamento, e esse parece, antes, andar junto somente com a completa ausência de questão. Contudo, é o contrário o que se dá. Não é preciso senão que se saiba de onde vem o encantamento. Resposta: do domínio ilimitado da maquinação. Se a maquinação chegar à dominação final, se ela entremear tudo, então não haverá mais condições para notar ainda expressamente o encantamento e opor-se a ele. O enfeitiçamento por meio da técnica e de seus progressos que se ultrapassam constantemente é apenas um sinal desse encantamento, em consequência do qual tudo é impelido para o cálculo, utilização, cultivo, maneabilidade e regulação. Até mesmo o “gosto” torna-se agora objeto dessa regulação, e tudo alcança um “bom nível”. O mediano torna-se cada vez melhor, e em virtude desse melhoramento, ele assegura seu domínio de modo cada vez mais irresistível e sem chamar a atenção.

É certamente uma conclusão enganadora achar que, quanto mais elevado o mediano, tanto mais predominante se torna a altura das realizações acima da média. Essa conclusão mesma é um sinal traiçoeiro da calculabilidade dessa postura. Permanece a questão, se ainda é preciso em geral um lugar para o que está acima da média, ou se a satisfação em meio ao mediano não se torna cada vez mais tranquilizante e legítima, até que ela até mesmo se convença de já ter realizado e poder realizar à vontade imediatamente aquilo que o que está acima da média pretende oferecer.

A constante elevação de nível do mediano e, paralelamente, o alargamento e propagação dos níveis até a plataforma de toda funcionabilidade em geral é o sinal mais inquietante do desaparecimento dos espaços de decisão, é sinal do abandono do ser. 

==== Fédier ====

On a pris l’habitude de nommer l’époque de la « civilisation » celle du dés-ensorcellement1 ; quant à ce dernier, il semble avoir quelque affinité, si ce n’est marcher la main dans la main avec la complète absence de questionnement. Quoi qu’il en soit, le rapport se fait à l’envers. Mais pour le voir, il faut d’abord se demander d’où vient l’ensorcellement. Réponse : de la domination sans partage de la fabrication. Lorsqu’elle atteint sa domination définitive, quand elle régit et transit tout le réel, alors il n’y a plus aucune des conditions requises pour que l’on évente la moindre trace d’ensorcellement et que l’on prenne des dispositions pour s’y opposer. L’envoûtement que répand la technique, ses progrès exponentiels, ne sont que le signe de cet ensorcellement, qui pousse tout en direction de la computation, de Futilité, du dressage, de la maniabilité et de la régulation. Le goût lui-même devient désormais affaire de régulation : ainsi tout parvient à un « niveau acceptable ». La moyenne s’améliore toujours plus, et grâce à cette amélioration, elle assure toujours mieux et toujours plus irrésistiblement sa domination.

Il serait toutefois trompeur de vouloir tirer de ces faits la conclusion qu’à mesure que s’élève la moyenne, les performances exceptionnelles augmenteraient d’autant plus de niveau. Cette manière de conclure est elle-même un signe qui trahit à quel point l’esprit de calcul domine les mentalités. La question qui se pose, c’est : y a-t-il même encore besoin de quelque espace pour ce qui dépasse la mesure commune, ou bien est-ce que se contenter de la moyenne rassure et même se justifie de mieux en mieux, jusqu’à finir par persuader qu’on a déjà atteint, et que l’on peut à volonté réaliser sans peine ce que seul est capable d’offrir ce qui a la prétention d’aller au-delà d’une moyenne.

L’élévation constante du niveau moyen, l’élargissement connexe du plan où s’établit ce niveau, son étalement en plate-forme pour toutes les espèces d’affairement en général, voilà le signe le plus terriblement inquiétant de la disparition des espaces de décision  –  signe de l’abandonnement de l’être. 

==== Emad & Maly ====

One is accustomed to calling the epoch of "civilization" one of disenchantment, and this seems for its part exclusively to be the same as the total lack of questioning. However, it is exactly the opposite. One has only to know from where the enchantment comes. The answer: from the unrestrained domination of machination. When machination finally dominates and permeates everything, then there are no longer any conditions by which still actually to detect the enchantment and to protect oneself from it. The bewitchment by technicity and its constantly self-surpassing progress are only one sign of this enchantment, by virtue of which everything presses forth into calculation, usage, breeding, manageability, and regulation. Even "taste" now becomes a matter for this regulation, and everything depends on a "good ambiance." The average becomes better and better, and by virtue of this bettering it secures its dominion always more irresistibly and more inconspicuously.

It is of course a deceptive conclusion to believe that, the higher the average, the more unsurpassable the height of above-average efforts becomes. This conclusion itself betrays the calculating character of this attitude. The question remains: Is any room still needed at all for the above-average? Or does satisfaaion with the average not become more and more soothing and legitimate, until it convinces itself that it has already achieved — and can immediately achieve at will — what the above-average claims to offer?

Constantly raising the level of the average and simultaneously broadening and widening the level up to the platform of every operation in general is the uncanniest indication of the disappearance of sites for decision — indicates the abandonment of being. 

==== Rojcewicz & Vallega-Neu ====

We are used to calling the era of “civilization” the one that has dispelled all bewitchery, and this dispelling seems more probably—indeed uniquely—connected to complete unquestionableness. Yet it is just the reverse. We merely need to know where the bewitchery comes from, namely, from the unbridled dominance of machination. When machination attains ultimate dominance, when it pervades everything, then there are no more circumstances whereby the bewitchery can be sensed explicitly and resisted. The hex cast by technology and by its constantly self-surpassing progress is only one sign of this bewitchery that directs everything toward calculation, utility, breeding, manageability, and regulation. Even “taste” now becomes subject to this regulating and is entirely a matter of being “high class.” The average becomes better and better, and thanks to this betterment the average secures its dominance ever more irresistibly and unobtrusively.

It would of course be illusory to conclude that the higher the average, the more surpassing becomes the height of above-average accomplishments. Such a conclusion is itself a revealing sign of how calculation permeates this attitude. The question is whether any space at all is still needed for the above-average, or whether satisfaction with averageness does not become ever more reassuring and justified, even to the point of persuading itself that it has already accomplished—and could immediately accomplish at will—what the above-average claims to offer.

The constant raising of the average level and the concurrent widening and wide application of this level, until it becomes the platform for all activity, constitute the most uncanny sign of the vanishing of the decisive places; it is a sign of the abandonment by being. (GA65RV)

==== Original ====

Man pflegt das Zeitalter der »Zivilisation« dasjenige der Ent-zauberung zu nennen, und diese scheint eher, ja allein mit der völligen Fraglosigkeit zusammen zu gehen. Gleichwohl ist es umgekehrt. Nur muß gewußt werden, woher die Bezauberung kommt. Antwort: aus der schrankenlosen Herrschaft der Machenschaft. Wenn diese in die Endherrschaft kommt, wenn sie alles durchsetzt, dann sind keine Bedingungen mehr, um die Verzauberung noch eigens zu spüren und gegen sie sich zu sperren. Die Behexung durch die Technik und ihre sich ständig überholenden Fortschritte ist nur ein Zeichen dieser Verzauberung, der zufolge alles auf Berechnung, Nutzung, Züchtung, Handlichkeit und Regelung drängt Sogar der »Geschmack« wird jetzt Sache dieser Regelung, und Alles kommt auf ein »gutes Niveau«. Der Durchschnitt wird immer besser, und kraft dieser Besserung sichert er immer unwiderstehlicher und unauffälliger seine Herrschaft.

Es ist freilich ein trügerischer Schluß, zu meinen, je höher der Durchschnitt, umso überragender werde die Höhe der überdurchschnittlichen Leistungen. Dieser Schluß selbst ist ein verräterisches Zeichen der Rechenhaftigkeit dieser Haltung. Die Frage bleibt, ob denn noch überhaupt ein Raum für das Überdurchschnittliche gebraucht wird, ob nicht die Genügsamkeit im Durchschnitt immer beruhigter und berechtigter wird, bis sie sogar sich einredet, selbst das schon geleistet zu haben und nach Wunsch unmittelbar leisten zu können, was der Über-durchschnitt zu bieten beansprucht.

Die ständige Niveauhebung des Durchschnittlichen und die gleichlaufende Verbreitung und Verbreiterung der Niveauebene bis zur Plattform aller Betriebsamkeit überhaupt ist das unheimlichste Zeichen des Schwindens der Entscheidungsräume, ist Zeichen der Seinsverlassenheit.