Decision and Design

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‘Every decision you make is a design decision’

Jean-Luc Nancy, in critically rearticulating the political philosophy of Carl Schmitt, that is, Schmitt’s conception of the theologicopolitical, argues that, in terms of “becoming-secular”, the necessity of decision … is the impossibility of assigning a Subject of law and the State that would not be first of all an existent in action. [an actant, in the sense being developed in Incomplete …]

Nancy argues that the process in question is not that of becoming secular but rather “becoming-worldly.” 

“Decision is existence as such, and existence, inasmuch as it does not take place for one alone or for two but for many, decides itself as a certain in of the in-common. Which one? Decision consists precisely in that we have to decide on it, in and for our world, and thus, first of all, to decide on the “we,” on who “we” are, on how we can say “we” and can call ourselves we.” (Nancy, 1997: 93)

Dasein is design.

References

Nancy, J.-L. (1997) The Sense of the world. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.