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In chapter four of The Human Condition 1 Hannah Arendt suggests that quotidian artifacts, such as the tables and chairs that we utilize on a daily basis, serve to stabilize human life. Between the private vagaries (one might even say the randomness) of human subjectivity on the one hand and the “sublime indifference of untouched nature” on the other, there is a man-made world protecting us from both.
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Hickman, L. (1988). The Phenomenology of The Quotidian Artifact. In: Durbin, P.T. (eds) Technology and Contemporary Life. Philosophy and Technology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3951-6_10
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