ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to extending the phenomenological analysis of place and space beyond the immediate particulars of Martin Heidegger’s own thoughts by way of evoking selected Heideggerian leitmotifs in his own reflection on advancements in technology as they unfolded after his era, and within our current 21st century epoch. He investigates the question of the being of place and space from a phenomenological standpoint that is orientated by selected Heideggerian directives in thinking, and as these are specifically set against the background of the unfolding of the essence of modern technology. Dwelling is entwined with the play of the energies of life that transcend mere localization within manufactured enclosures that are established through calculative methods of the technical production of spatiality in concreto or via the aid of virtual simulations. Death becomes a horizon of resoluteness for disclosing one’s own dwelling-in-the-world in an authentic mode of being that does not shrink back in fear from the nothing.
