Tekniğe İlişkin Soruşturma’nın Eko-Fenomenolojik İmkânlarıyla Mısır Adası (2014)’ndaki Doğa Kavrayışı Üzerine Düşünmek
Thinking About the Understanding of Nature on the Corn Island (2014) with Eco-Phenomenological Possibilities of The Question Concerning Technology

Summary/Abstract: The Egyptian public, who regulate their lives depending on the annual floods in the Nile River and have a river culture, built their water and land-centered lives after each flood and enlarged the possibilities of the land when the coastline of the Nile River turned into a fertile and mud-covered land. In the Simindis Kundzuli (Corn Island, George Ovashvili, 2014) which sets on an island in the middle of the Enguri River, the islets formed after the river overflows turn into fertile land for the agricultural activities of the farmers. In this bringing forth in nature, the possibilities of the land and the island are realized by turning into an activity without damming them up. This non-challenging attitude towards nature corresponds to the hidden side of nature that Heidegger mentioned in Being and Time, and the concept of nature, which is the subject of poiēsis in The Question Concerning Technology. In this sense, Heidegger, with reference to the ground of hiddenness in The Question Concerning Technology, discussed the poetic aspect of the ontological attitude towards nature in the context of physis and tekhnē. The distinction between the way of revealing of Being as singularity of beings and the bringing forth of nature as a raw material store in The Question Concerning Technology enables phenomenology to be considered in an ecological manner. In this context, the understanding of nature in Corn Island will be associated with surrender to it rather than being dominating, and its relationship with ecophenomenology will be evaluated. As a matter of fact, in the last sequence of the film, the overflows in the river cannot be prevented and the shed and the corncobs are dragged by the waters of the river. This indicates that the river is not seen as a raw material store.

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