διανοια 56 ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND TRUTH in the Thought of Martin Heidegger FELIPE DANIEL MONTERO In mythology, autochthones (from the Ancient Greek αὐτός "self," and χθών "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself ") are those mortals who have sprung from the soil, rocks and trees. Tey are rooted and belong to the land eternally. 1 I. INTRODUCTION In his “Deromanticizing Heidegger,” American philosopher Don Ihde attempts to denounce some arbitrary stances in Martin Heidegger’s thought in order to propose a philosophy of technology purged of what he deems the philosopher’s romantic, and implicitly Nazi, preferences. Ihde begins in stating: “A century after his birth, two very contrary statements can be made concerning Martin Heidegger: First, in a signifcant sense, he is surely one of the most important founders of the philosophy of technology […] Second, we all also know that he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and remained with it through the war […] My question is this: Is there something at the very heart of Heidegger's thought that makes both of these contraries possible?” 2 Te aim of this present work attempts to answer Ihde’s question following a close reading of Heidegger’s public speech “Memorial Address” 1 Josine H Blok. “Gentrifying Genealogy: On the Genesis of the Athenian Autochthony Myth.” In Ancient Myth. Media, Transformations and Sense-Constructions, 251–75. Edited by Ueli Dill and Christine Walde. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009), 261. 2 Don Ihde, Heidegger’s technologies: postphenomenological perspectives, (New York, Fordham University Press, 2010), 74.