Heidegger and Foucault on Modern Technology: Does Gestell ‘Correspond Perfectly’ to Dispositif?

This article compares Heidegger and Foucault on modern technology, taking its clue from Agamben’s claim that Gestell and dispositif are ‘perfectly corresponding’ concepts. So far, however, the task of a detailed comparison of Gestell and dispositif remains unresolved. At first glance, the two terms appear compatible, designating how we moderns began objectifying nature as well as ourselves as manipulatable raw material. Significant for the discussion is Heidegger's and Foucault's contrasting readings of Nietzsche - the 'last metaphysician' versus 'the first genealogist' which present modern technology as humanity’s nearly inescapable condition, or as ‘functionally indeterminant’, evolving in multiple, intersecting, and unexpected ways.