
Arendt on Action
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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What Can Go Wrong in the Relationship Between the Natural and the Artificial?
There's some kind of idealized form of the human life where all we do is politics. And it's certainly not true that arent thinks that you can have action without work, labor. So there ware two confusions in particular i think that she was trying to warn against. One was the tendency of work to collapse back into labour. That is, the attempt to build durable artifax gets reduced to a form of consumption. This is a criticism in part of societies that were increasingly organized around consumption,. treating their citizens as consumers. She was much more worried about what happens when nature gets colonized by the artificial, but when the artificial get colonized by nature.
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