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What happens if during a quiet weekend at the seaside at a friend's house you learn that within a few hours the world will end? It is the plot of a film, which the vigorous ninety-year-old Liliana Cavani launched in theaters in September that smells of the Venice Film Festival . The film's title is inspired by an essay by physicist and popularizer Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time. Beautiful title, important theme, the illusory duration of time which is not measured in length and quantity but in quality and intensity, as the philosopher Henri Bergson also said. But above all the theme of the film is crucial, absolute: today's humanity surprised by the prospect of dying, all of them, simultaneously, suddenly, in the space of a few hours. The cause of the end of the world would be a large asteroid traveling quickly towards the earth, whose impact would be lethal for the planet, without the possibility of salvation. The apostles of the apocalypse in the film are two physicists who tell and do not tell others what is happening but who announce The News of News: the end of the world is imminent, there is no escape.
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SPIEGEL: It is obvious that man it never [complete] master of his tools -- witness the case of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. But is it not a little too pessimistic to say: we are not gaining mastery over this surely much greater tool [that is] modern technicity?
Heidegger: Pessimism, no. In the area of the reflection that I am attempting now, pessimism and optimism are positions that don't go far enough. But above all, modern technicity is no "tool" and has nothing at all to do with tools.
SPIEGEL: Why should we be so powerfully overwhelmed by technicity that...?
Heidegger: I don't say [we are] "overwhelmed" [by it]. I say that up to the present we have not yet found a way to respond to the essence of technicity.
SPIEGEL: But someone might object very naively: what must be mastered in this case? Everything is functioning. More and more electric power companies are being built. Production is up. In highly technologized parts of the earth, people are well cared for. We are living in a state of prosperity. What really is lacking to us?
Heidegger: Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is awesome, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges man and uproots him from the earth. I don't know if you were shocked, but [certainly] I was shocked when a short time ago I saw the pictures of the earth taken from the moon. We do not need atomic bombs at all [to uproot us] -- the uprooting of man is already here. All our relationships have become merely technical ones. It is no longer upon an earth that man lives today. Recently I had a long [209] dialogue in Provence with Rene Char -- a poet and resistance fighter, as you know. In Provence now, launch pads are being built and the countryside laid waste in unimaginable fashion. This poet, who certainly is open to no suspicion of sentimentality or of glorifying the idyllic, said to me that the uprooting of man that is now taking place is the end [of everything human], unless thinking and poetizing once again regain [their] nonviolent power.
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