If we now consider the double statu

If we now consider the double status of the poietic activity of modern man, we will see that, while the work of art has par excellence the character of energeia, that is, possesses itself in the unrepeatability of its formal eidos as in its end, the product of technology lacks this energetic station in its own form, as though the character of availability ended up by obscuring its formal aspect. Of course the industrial product is finished, in the sense that the productive process has come to its end, but the particular relationship of distance from its principle of origin—in other words, its reproducibility— causes the product never to possess itself in its own shape as in its own end, and thus the product remains in a condition of perpetual potentiality. That is, the entry into presence has the character of energeia, of being-at- work, in the work of art, and the character of dynamis, of availability for . . . in the industrial product (we usually express this by saying that the indus- trial product is not a “work” but, precisely, a product).