The View from the Background

Široko je rasprostranjeno slaganje da se pozadinska infrastruktura nesvjesno primjenjuje i nije formalno predstavljiva, nego se pogledi razilaze treba li se ta vrsta vještine smatrati znanjem u pravome smislu. U ovome članku pokušavam pokazati da je pozadinska infrastruktura tip stručnog znanja koji služi kao preduvjet umu da bi bio o stvarima u svijetu. Suprotno uobičajenom razumijevanju, da je pozadina prvenstveno mehanička, ovdje predstavljen pogled potvrđuje je kao totalitet znanja preuzet od tijela i pretvoren u implicitno ‘znati-kako’ (know-how). On se pojavljuje kao modus umskog ‘posvjetovljenja’, kao i organ potencijalnosti.There is wide agreement that background infrastructure is unconsciously applied and is not formally representable, but views diverge as to whether this sort of skill should be considered knowledge in the proper sense. In this paper I attempt to show that background infrastructure is a type of skilled knowledge which serves as a precondition for the mind to be about things in the world. Contrary to the common understanding that background is primarily mechanical, the view presented here affirms that it as a totality of knowing taken up by the body and converted into an implicit ‘know-how’. It appears as a mode of mind’s ‘enworldment’, as well as an organ of potentiality