Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Just Works
When something 'just works' its presence is imperceptible, its absence is anything but. Generally the air just works, and there isn't much to celebrate about that, it is assumed. But when it doesn't ... you notice.
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"When we notice its unhandiness, what is at hand enters the mode of obtrusiveness. The more urgently we need what is missing and the more truly it is encountered in its unhandiness, all the more obtrusive does what is at hand become, such that it seems to lose the character of handiness. It reveals itself as something merely objectively present, which cannot be budged without the missing element."
-Heidegger, Being and Time
Yeah that's how I'd say it if I was a faggot.
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