Modern physics reframes reality as instrumentality rather than being

Evidence

In other words, theoretically, the transformation of man and nature has no other objective limits than those offered by the brute factuality of matter, its still unmastered resistance to knowledge and control. To the degree to which this conception becomes applicable and effective in reality, the latter is approached as a (hypothetical) system of instrumentalities; the metaphysical “being-as-such” gives way to “being-instrument.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 565

Categorization

• DEFINE: The shift from ‘being-as-such’ to ‘being-instrument’ names the core one-dimensionality move: reality as a hypothetical system of instrumentalities rather than substance.
• XREF: Connects directly to the ‘technological rationality as ideology’ thesis the reader is tracking for critical theory work — mirrors the reading purpose bridging to attention/consumption economics. — connects to: Things are primordially instrumental-things, not things that later become instruments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 618; Modern science relocates the observer inside the observed system; Science can penetrate everything but what it penetrates is not being (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Physics’ pursuit of objectivity paradoxically de-materialized nature #expands (0.82) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 575
• Metaphysical propositions gain truth-value as technology makes them physically realizable #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 808