244. Truth and sheltering30
Extracted from this domain and for that reason belonging herein: the separate question of the "origin of the work of art" (d. the Freiburg and the Frankfurt lectures32).
The machine and machination (technology)
The machine, its essence. The servicing it demands, the uprooting it causes. "Industry" (factories); industrial workers, torn out of homeland and history, resettled as wage-earners.
Training in mechanics; machination and business. What sort of transformation of the human being is setting in here? (World-earth?) Machination and business. The huge number, the gigantic, sheer expansion and ever-greater leveling down and emptying. The inexorable deterioration into what is ungenuine, into kitsch.
32. "Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes." In Holzwege (GA5).