Don't Mess with Mr. In-Between Part 2

It's flabbergasting how little Heidegger is “into” the idea of an environment. In fact he is actively hostile to it. We can only conclude that at worst green Heideggerianism tries to cover over what is most essential to Heidegger, by covering over the most starting discoveries he made about being. Discoveries that are indeed essential in an age of ecological emergency. This is not a little ironic.

Consider what Heidegger says in Being and Time about discourse, a basic component of Da-sein. Discourse involves communicating information, sometimes. Heidegger is explicit:

Here the articulation of being-with-one-another understandingly is constituted. It brings out the ‘sharing’ of being attuned together and of the understanding of being-with. Communication is never anything like a conveying of experiences, for example, opinions and wishes, from the inside of one subject to the inside of another. Mitda-sein is essentially already manifest in attunement-with and understanding-with. Being-with is “explicitly” shared in discourse, that is, it already is, only unshared as something not grasped and appropriated.

If communication is not a case of some kind of packet going from the inside of me to the inside of you, then there can't be an in-between space or medium in which this communication is delivered, without some kind of reification of being.

Rather, communication happens in an intersubjective (I would argue interobjective) configuration space that can't be specified in advance. OOO ecology can't simply be about reinventing the wheel of pregiven concepts such as self, world, and environment.