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enframing

enframing

9.6
Seeing things mainly as objects to use because of technology
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈfreɪmɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : enmarcado
  • According to Heidegger, Nietzsche was the final and most radical spokesman for the modern "enframing" or projecting of human frames of reference indicative of modernity.

Examples

  • Narrative enframings are, first of all, a strategy for drawing distinctions, for self-referentially separating and making something visible.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The enframing of the landscape by the photographer created a captivating visual narrative.

  • Instead of any of these, Heidegger understands Enframing, the essence of technology, to be a way in which entities are first revealed.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Its essence is the "framework," or, more accurately, the Enframing, that sets upon man to reveal everything, including himself, as standing reserve to be regulated and ordered.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Here we see how Guarini's enframing devices of the fluted columns and depressed arch functioned as a proscenium for ceremonial exhibition.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Heidegger's well-known and influential philosophy of technology sees its essence as Ge-Stell, the 'enframing' which determines beings as available and exploitable resources (Bestand).

    Academic text (2016)
  • In architecture, enframing refers to how the structure outlines the space, influencing the viewer's perception.

  • The artist's use of color and shape serves as an enframing tool that directs the audience's attention.

Synonyms

framing
vsenframing
38 4.9

Presenting information in a way that affects how people understand it

focuses more on enclosing or technical processes than on influence
enframement
vsenframing
  • Literature
9.7

Presenting information to change how people understand it

includes enclosing and technological contexts rather than only influencing presentation

How Narrow

closure
27 4.4
enframing
  • Specialized
9.6
framing
38 4.9
broad
469 3.7

Surface Forms

enframing singular
enframings plural

Morphology

enframing = framing (semi-transparent) = en + frame + ing

The conceptual/technological sense is an abstract extension of physical 'framing' and is inferable but somewhat metaphorical.

Etymology

Enframing uses en- 'put into' and frame 'border', and is used in thinking to mean 'putting something into a frame' — shaping how we see or understand it, for example the way a tool or idea can change our view.