
51 – Unpacking David Pye’s “Nature and Art of Workmanship” - Part 1
The Mortise & Tenon Podcast
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The Value of Making
You've written about pie. You unpacked him a little bit back in issue seven, right? I wrote an article that was basically trying to summarize pie's main argument in the book. The question about the value of making, why do we value things that were made by hand? How can that be? And therefore, what is the distinction we have to be thinking about? Rather than fall into this naively nostalgic fixation on some golden time period where true craftsmanship really happened and it's not, it can't happen now today.
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