![]() Contrary to this, works of art and creativity have no use value. One impact of such instrumentality of work in the form of market technocracy is that it evades all connections with the public world leading to loneliness and normalisation of workers. What then should be the parameters of judging products of work? Unlike a means-end approach towards judging the products of work in terms of their use value, Arendt argues that it is wrong to judge work from the perspective of consumption and useability as its only parameter. ![]() ![]() This material human world created by artists, craftsmen, and workers of all kinds adds permanence to human life, which is otherwise transitory. It is the artificial world of fabrication and reification of things through the tools of what Arendt calls as homo faber. ![]() Work for Arendt marks the ‘worldliness’ of human life. ![]()
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