The houses we live in: On canonical texts

I am not a Hannah Arendt scholar, so please, do not @ me. But, as the theme of this Substack suggests, I am interested in the nature of work (international legal work mostly, but also more general classes of work that international lawyering exemplifies, like drafting, research, or teaching). And as well as saying much about totalitarianism and the banality of evil, Arendt also said some things about work. She distinguished it from labour by associating work with the artisanal life of the creative craftsperson. Despite the fact that it is the craftsperson’s subjectivity that gets them to assemble and complete a product in the first place, nonetheless that product takes on an object-ive quality of its own once finished.