creativity/machine

Category: DIY

  • be still my retro heart

    This steampunk keyboard does all kinds of unspeakably pleasurable things to me. Steampunk, by the way, is defined by the maker as the practice “wherein the craftsman demonstrates the construction of artifacts from an age of steam and brass”, and also refers to a genre of speculative fiction: The term denotes works set in an […]

  • generating ‘enthusiasms’

    I captured this ‘event’ in my morning commute for Glen (well, and a little bit for me re: gender and the mastery of technologies). Current thesis word count: 26,733 (URGH).

  • craft, thesis, update

    I just can’t seem to avoid the craft at the moment. Current thesis word count: 24,017 The refusal at work in these DIY communities is not only a refusal of the affluent Western individual’s interpelletation as the consumer of inauthentic, technologised and mass-produced artifacts; it is also avowedly a recuperation of everyday domestic labour and […]

  • the politics of ‘participatory’ culture

    Anne asks: At what point does collaboration cease to be reciprocal and simply become appropriation? I’ve written many times, here and elsewhere, that I question the kind of reciprocity at work when a small group of people profit from the work of many others. […] In the past I would have considered these things amongst […]

  • Fetishising DIY

    The perverse lo-fi, lo-tech aesthetic of DIY tech objects – and a very particular ‘mastery of technologies’ discourse – is showcased here: and here… and here Friday is for…flickr-ing.

  • DIY as niche market

    DIY culture as niche market: ReadyMade: A magazine for people who like to make stuff

  • Blogging, Punk, and Militant DIY

    I’m frantically busy planning a course and finishing off some outstanding articles, all without my sexy home PC which has some fried hardware and is in the shop, so I haven’t had much time online lately. Nevertheless: From Empty Bottle, a vigorous, and highly Romantic post-punk blogging manifesto well worth reading. You’ll have to go […]

  • Craftster

    craftster.org is a repository for hip, crafty, DIY projects.