Why?
Making something by hand implies and embodies a completely different relationship between producer/consumer/object. Everything I have made by hand has lasted at least twenty years; this is dangerous too, it's a different model of "fashion" and of "newness" as the ultimate good.
In this model, you have less, but what you have is much better than the mass produced stuff.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando Cassia" <fcassia at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:23:38 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, James Leveque <jamespl79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ms. Levine, who receives hundreds of submissions from makers who want to be
> shown in her gallery, does see a lot of owls. “But even when I turn people
> down,” she said, “I want to send a message: Don’t stop. What matters is that
> people keep making things.”
Yes people need a pastime or hobbies...
But was the last time you saw a true revolution made by artists and hippies?.
FC
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