∞ “As things become dulled and inauthentic, they become conceptualized rather than experienced; they are taken out of their living context, a bit like ripping the heart out of a living body. Heidegger called this process that of -Gestell-, or framing, a term which suggests the detachment of seeing things as if through a window (as in a famous image of Decartes’s), or as re-presented in a picture, or, nowadays, framed by the TV or the computer screen. Inherent in it is the notion of an arbitrarily abrupted set of potential relationships, with the context — which ultimately means the totality of Being, all that is — neatly severed at the edges of the frame.”

— Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, p. 154