This is probably a very good time to become a DIY maintenance, junkyard connoisseur, scavenger-maker, jury-rigger type person. I think there’s a different kind of maker movement brewing. One grounded in junk and entropy rather than from scratch building, 3d printing etc
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there's a growing subfield of what could be called "repair studies." i also have a scene in my first book of radio activists scavenging in a uni engineering building that was about to be demolished, hauling home horn antennas & ultrasound equipment. one of my fave fieldwork exp's
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which is to say, there are definitely flavors of DIY that tend towards maintenance & repair more than consumer ethos, and i like those better
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‘Salvage engineering’ is on my list of future jobs (increasingly seen in the present).
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Viva la Bricoleur. I enjoyed the synchronicity of these in my timeline. ~ roaming some archetypal synthetic+a posteriori manoeuvres:https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1292331749557415936?s=20 …
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