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Looking at DIY media as aspirational - even if the only participation is through dreaming. It's about the details of doing - sharing the practices. Like Popular Mechanics of 1920s. The language felt like it was written for hackers, but written for 1920s tinkerers.
what matters is not that the thing belongs to us in the end, but that we get to make the decisions ourselves as we go along - returning to hobbies to gain control over work again
Maker Faire - seeing things in person
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Questions
Make, Craft, and gender? Make as high-tech->low-tech, Craft as low-tech->high-tech
recovery of lost arts - also, because older technologies are easier to understand visually, and hence to copy without owning the source
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