Man is not at home in the functional milieu.
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This is what functional objects clearly lack: they only exist in the present, in the indicative, in the practical imperative, disappearing along with their use value without ever having previously existed. The functional object is effectual, while the mythological object is complete.
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What man lacks is always invested in the object [ it is similar for savage and modern societies but in different form, for the former it appears as fetishism to modern objects and for the latter as fetishism for antique and bygone objects]
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According to him our current lives have such controversies, and one completes the other one. a functional modern cupboard with a Spanish sideboard, an apartment in town and a house in the country.
Pray for me to overcome such deep philosophical meanings.
The first quotation has not a clear meaning for me! Would you explain it a bit more, please.
ReplyDeleteI think he means that our built environment is not just about satisfying our first needs we need more something beyond functionality. In other words, the famous difference between Home and House. This citation from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi might be more of help in this regard: "The things with which people interact are not simply tools for survival, or for making survival easier and more comfortable. Things embody goals, make skills manifest and shape the identities of their users".
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