Heidegger thought that "the hand holds our humanity, as it holds a pen". "Modern man", he observes, "with scarcely disguised revulsion" (Ingold's words), ‘writes “with” the typewriter’. So the typing is not really a writing *with* at all. It is merely the mechanical transcription of words to paper. What is lost, in this transcription is, the ductus of the hand. Well, typewriters are the least of our problems, Martin.
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