" The distance between the act of production and the act of usage..." #readingToday

The distance between the act of production and the act of usage, this lack of real information, allows for the introduction of the inessential, which creates obsolescence. Because it is judged once and for all, accepted or rejected in full in the decision or the refusal to buy, the object of industrial production is a closed object, a false organism that is seized by a holistic thought that was psychosocially produced...

(Moon+ Reader Pro v2.3.4, Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology)