indicates a mere attaching of a still [G26] missing period, nor the coming to an end of what is basically already known. Rather, completion heralds what is lastly and mostly disconcerting within the epoch, and does not cease with the completion, but begins the foundational domination. The completion of the metaphysical epoch raises being in the sense of machination to such a "domination", that within machination being is indeed forgotten, and yet the beings of such nature are pursued as the only unconditionally secured representing and producing. Such arrangeable representedness and producedness decides upon what should be admitted as being and discarded as non-being. The producibility of beings that produces and makes up everything is machination, which predetermines also the nature of the effectiveness of beings and provides actuality with its unique meaning. What is effective as such is not calculated according to the short-term "purposes" of a being. Rather it consists solely in the manner of the effectiveness of machination itself (of being). Machination prevails at the same time as the ground of interpreting the actual as "the will to power" - the ground that is not known in its sway and is also unrecognizable by all metaphysics. Its sway consists in the necessary and therefore unceasing overpowering of all power, an overpowering whose sway fosters in advance - but does not cause - the makability of machination. Planning, calculating, arranging and breeding foster a being that has come to power in this way and thereby fosters the affirmation of #becoming", but not with the intention of progressing towards a goal and an "ideal", rather for the sake of "becoming itself". For "becoming" pursues the overpowering, since any kind of power can maintain itself only in overpowering. However, "becoming" is fundamentally fostered beforehand by machination itself because machination arises out of the sway of being as presencing and constancy. "Being is becoming" - this is not a denial of being. On the contrary, with "being is becoming" being's inceptual sway (φύσις - ἰδέα - οὐσία) is foundationally fulfilled through beingness as machination that is marked in advance by the staying away of the grounding of truth [G27] (d. below G92 f., G1 10 f.). The seeming priority of "becoming" over "being" indicates only the self-empowering of producibility for rendering its unconditioned presencing constant and thus for the completed empowering of becoming to being. When thinking insists on the seeming oppositionality of becoming to being, thinking does not know what it thinks. This insistence is an indication that thinking has failed to come to terms with metaphysics. Hegel's and Nietzsche's metaphysics - belonging together within the completion of Occidental metaphysics like left and