The Machine and Machination (Technicity)
The machine, what is its ownmost, the service that it demands, the uprooting that it brings. "Industry" (operations); industrial workers, torn from homeland and history, exploited for profit.

Machine-training; machination and business. What recasting of man gets started here? (World--earth?) Machination and business. The large number, the gigantic, pure extension and growing leveling off and emptying. Falling necessarily victim to trash and to what is sham.
P. 274

Stuart Elden, in his paper Taking the Measure of the Beiträge, translates that final sentence like so:

Falling necessarily victim to kitsch and imitation.

To my ear the two sentences describe two different situations. Kitsch implies a decision made, a decision to avoid making a choice, after reading Kundera. Kitsch is

an inability to tolerate the essential relativity of things human, an inability to look squarely at the absence of the Supreme Judge.
P. 7

Earlier in the same essay Kundera notes:

[A]ll the great themes Heidegger analyzes in Being and Time--considering them to have been neglected by all earlier European philosophy--had been unveiled, displayed, illuminated by four centuries of the novel.
P. 5

Natch.  ¶ 5:03 PM