Douglas Peduti

In _Contributions to Philosophy_, Heidegger approaches the Gigantic merely “being-historically”, but what if we could break with Heidegger’s narrative and reveal a real lesson about capital about our present from his conception of the Gigantic? For the Gigantic presupposes a break with the limits of nature that we can only truly understand if we trace it back to a form of laboring activity, which by not "forging" anything "in its boundaries" anymore breaks with any boundary, and in constantly one-upping its means cannot find any "end" and thus becomes truly unbounded. The paper shows that capital and the Gigantic are conditioned by each other and that we cannot overcome one without considering the other. It provides some insight into why Marx was wrong to expect the overcoming of capital by overbidding the productivity of labor, but also why Heidegger’s privileging of the boundary in a full negligence of capital ends up in the seduction by the fantasy of the original site, which seems to be reflected in a terrible mixture today: The boundlessness of capital mixed with today’s identitarian zeal of saving "borders" from a figure fear, namely “the migrant”.