The Critical Makers Reader. (Un)learning Technology

Bogers, LoesChiappini, Letizia2023-02-172023-02-172019978-94-92302-37-3https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-critical-makers-reader-unlearning-technology/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20453A decade ago many gushed at the possibilities of 3D printers and other DIY tech. Today makers are increasingly shaking off their initial blind enthusiasm to numerically control everything, rediscovering an interest in sociocultural histories and futures and waking up to the environmental and economic implications of digital machines that transform materials. An accumulation of critique has collectively registered that no tool, service, or software is good, bad, or neutral—or even free for that matter. We’ve arrived at a crossroads, where a reflective pause coincides with new critical initiatives emerging across disciplines. What was making? What is making? What could making become? And what about unmaking? The Critical Makers Reader features an array of practitioners and scholars who address these questions. Together, they tackle issues of technological making and its intersections with (un)learning, art and design, institutionalization, social critique, community organizing, collaboration, activism, urban regeneration, social inequality, and the environmental crisis.<ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=10'>Loes Bogers & Letizia Chiappini: Introduction</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=20'>Matt Ratto & Garnet Hertz: Critical Making and Interdisciplinary Learning: Making as a Bridge between Art, Science, Engineering and Social Interventions</a></li> </ul> <h4>MATTER THAT MATTERS: MATERIAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH A CAUSE</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=32'>Graham Harwood: Teaching Critical Technical Practice</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=41'>Maria Dada: The Counter-Testimony of the Maker</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=50'>Critical Media Lab: Merle Ibach, Michaela Büsse, Felix Gerloff, Viktor Bedö, Shintaro Miyazaki & Jamie Allen: Unmaking: Against General Applicability</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=64'>xtine burrough <> Lucy HG Solomon: Drawing on Theory to Build/Unbuild Media, or Lalalalalalalalala</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=75'>Gareth Foote & Eva Verhoeven: Tactics for a More-Than-Human Maker Culture</a></li> </ul> <h4>(UN)LEARNING TECHNOLOGY: HOMO FABER’S TOOLS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=89'>Caroline Sinders: Making Critical Ethical Software</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=98'>KairUs (Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle): Behind the Smart World: Artistic Remixing of a Global Data Breach</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=110'>David Cole & Hannah Perner-Wilson: Getting Lost and Unlearning Certainty: Material Encounters in an Electronic Craft Practice</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=130'>Wim Nijenhuis: Making (Things) as Ethical Practice</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=143'>Serena Cangiano: Back to the Basics: Or Why [Design] Education Is Going Back to Making</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=151'>Samantha Penn: Learning the Washing Machine</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=165'>Verena Kuni: C IS FOR...? Cards for Collaborative Learning of / for / from / about Critical Making</a></li> </ul> <h4>ORGANIZING OPENNESS: SOCIALITY AND COMMUNITY</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=176'>Benjamin Matthews: Enkel Collective: Making Change Makers</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=184'>Paul O’Neill: C-Node: Subverting the Black Boxes of Amazon Web Services in Dublin</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=199'>Tom Keene: Demolition Machines: Making and Thinking with Databases of Urban Regeneration</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=209'>Deanna Herst: Destandardizing Design? Learning from Critical Users</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=221'>Peter Troxler: Building Open Design as a Commons</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=230'>Krystin Gollihue & Abigail Browning: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Critical Making</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=240'>Anja Groten: Hacking & Designing: Paradoxes of Collaborative Practice</a></li> </ul> <h4>MAKING SPACES: LABS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=248'>Grace Van Ness: Hacking the Hustle: Sex Work, Networks, & Social Reproduction Under FOSTA-SESTA</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=261'>Kat Braybrooke: ‘Placeless’ Making? Rearticulating the Power-Geometries of Digital Platforms in China Through Tactical Co-Creation</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=272'>Xin Gu & Pip Shea: Fabbing the Chinese Maker Identity</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=281'>Cindy Kohtala & Sharon Ede: Maker-Activists in the Post-Growth City</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=289'>Maya Livio & Lori Emerson: Towards Feminist Labs: Provocations for Collective Knowledge-Making</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20453/INC-Reader_12_Bogers-Chiappini_2019_Critical-Makers-Reader_.pdf#page=301'>Bernhard Garnicnig: Making It Up: Critical Practices of Instituting</a></li>engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 GenericMakersNew TechnologyCriticism300The Critical Makers Reader. 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