Making Trouble
豆瓣
Design and Material Activism
Otto von Busch
简介
Making hacks into reality. It engages matter in ways that trespass the boundaries between the civic realm and the state-assigned laws. Even with primitive tools and skills, designing and making can break open and repurpose arrangements of power. The proof is that some crafts are so controversial-lock-picking, moonshining, shoplifting, smuggling, sabotage-that they need to be controlled or even outlawed. When designers and makers touch on these contested realms, they run into trouble. This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting cases-from illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current order-it shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.
contents
Preface xiii
Back to Matter xvi
Activist Making xviii
Affirmative Making xxi
1 Power in the Making 1
Primitive Making 3
Matters and Materials 7
Making between Matter and Meta 10
2 State Metaxu 19
Metaxu 21
State Space–State Matter 24
State Meta in the Matter 31
3 Making Matters 37
Making Leverage 39
Finding Material Leverage 43
The Contents of Political Matters 46
4 Making Agency 51
Making Change, Making Resistance 53
Making Material Agency 56
Manipulating Meta 63
5 Doing and Sitting 69
Sitting Is Not Only Sitting 70
Royal Crafts and Citizen Consumption 74
Resistant Sitting 81
Seated Democracies 84
6 Recursive Matters 91
Intensity versus Scale 93
Making Means and Ends Meet 95
Pulsation 101
7 Strategic Objectiles 109
Material Mobilization 111
Tactical Presence and Its Limitations 114
Stitch for Senate 119
8 Material Counterintelligence 125
Material Intelligence 127
Artus and Mêtis 131
The Cookies of Cunning 135
9 Brewing Dissent 141
Controlled Substances, Controlled Crafts 146
Misuse and Mischief 149
Buckets of Evidence 152
10 Designing Back 159
Making Civics Tangible 163
Design and Activism 166
Material Civic Dissidence 172
11 Trouble Making and Counter-Crafts 179
Dangerous Makings 187
Mapping Material Activism 192
12 Make It Simple 197
Making Action Spaces 198
Making Calisthenics 203
Stay Matter! 208
References 213
Index 227