about (digital dasein)                                                 

 

Digital Dasein is an online interdisciplinary space and creative portfolio, in which I aim to engage with and contribute to meaningful conversations through ideas, art and collaborative projects.

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The initial idea behind this website was inspired by Heidegger’s somewhat obscure, yet entirely unique, conceptual term-of-art, ‘Dasein’. Roughly translated, Dasein means “there-being”, and was employed by Heidegger in an attempt to re-conceptualise the everyday, phenomenological structures of being alive that are both particular and generic to all (i.e. that you find yourself in a specific time, place, and culture, etc). This was intended to be a distinct and novel conception of human self-understanding, breaking from past conceptual frameworks provided by past philosophers, theologians and scientists.

 

This term further served as a foundation to Heidegger’s existentialist framework, surrounding the notion of what it means to live authentically and inauthentically. And it was from this radical reconceptualisation of 'being' – whatever that really means or comes down to – that inspired me to more intentionally attempt to reflect on what and where ‘there’ really is for me.

 

And so, long-story short, Digital Dasein is the digital 'there' in which I place my so-called 'being', in all of its perplexed (in)authenticity!