Evolving Bildung, technology and streaming art

ABSTRACT The essay outlines an alternative model of Bildung, which the authors call an evolving Bildung. Their argument for taking this perspective on Bildung builds on Heidegger’s thinking concerning technology and his notion of a step back out of metaphysics and into a thinking of what is essential in technology. Moreover, departing from both Gadamer’s and Heidegger’s thinking the authors analyze how streaming media as art as well as art within streaming media can contribute to develop the notion of an evolving Bildung. The authors, furthermore, use Spotify as an example of a streaming medium which has the possibility to change the way art is experienced, and also how an evolving Bildung can develop education into an authentic human engagement with what can be called the Other, in the broad sense of this term, and so away from instrumentalism and calculative thinking.