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Keith Russell
University of Newcastle

Getting on sartre's bike: teaching the object that essence does not precede existence

Models of design, based on models of God, allow that objects appear to plan. On this model, objects are made before they are made. That is, the design is carried through to the product in such a way that production offers no surprise.
However, when this object arrives in the world of experience, its initial ownership is immediately transcended: the object is in need of being used. To become utile it must firstly be taught its use. In its teaching, the object undergoes the appropriation of creation and then destruction as it is taken up in the human project.

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