ABSTRACT
Philosophy of existence was pioneered by Martin Heidegger more than any other single person. For human existence, existence is an issue and something which is always at stake. Anyone who has ever been in a vehicle crash knows from immediate experience the almost stunningly instantaneous transition—from a state-of-the-art usably seamless extension of people themselves, into a tangled mess of useless and cumbersome metal, in which people sit looking round at an “unfeeling world” about them. The tenacious life of these rooms refused to let itself be trampled down. It was still there; it clung to the nails that had remained; it stood on the handsbreadth remnant of the floor; it had crept together there among the onsets of the corners where there was still a tiny bit of interior space. Even sign systems which are familiar suddenly become foreign again as people descend into incompetence and bewilderment.
