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	by Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Jacques Derrida, ''Writing and Difference'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 [1967]).</ref> The literal meaning of diy is a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of someone without professional training, typically in makeshift or even crude ways.		by Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Jacques Derrida, ''Writing and Difference'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 [1967]).</ref> The literal meaning of diy is a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of someone without professional training, typically in makeshift or even crude ways.

	[[File:La friche.jpg\|thumb\|La Friche, former DIY space in Marseille, France,		[[File:La friche.jpg\|thumb\|La Friche, former DIY space in Marseille, France, photo: Pascal Rey, 2008 (Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA 2.0).]]
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	[[File:Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama Sornainen - Helsinki - Finland - 2021 June - 3.jpg\|thumb\|Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama, Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland in June 2021, photo: Simo Räsäne (Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA 2.0.)]]		[[File:Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama Sornainen - Helsinki - Finland - 2021 June - 3.jpg\|thumb\|Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama, Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland in June 2021, photo: Simo Räsäne
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	[[File:Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama Sornainen - Helsinki - Finland - 2021 June - 3.jpg\|thumb\|Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama, Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland in 2021 ~~June.~~		[[File:Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama Sornainen - Helsinki - Finland - 2021 June - 3.jpg\|thumb\|Suvilahti DIY skatepark in Kalasatama, Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland in June 2021, photo: Simo Räsäne (Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA 2.0.)]]
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	Subcultures and artist projects can converge in radical diy practices that are: self-taught, self-built, self-funded, happening in self-organized spaces using self-built infrastructure, with self-organized communication and <mark class="c5">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to an individual, a collective or a community.		Subcultures and artist projects can converge in radical diy practices that are: self-taught, self-built, self-funded, happening in self-organized spaces using self-built infrastructure, with self-organized communication and <mark class="c6">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to an individual, a collective or a community.

	This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>		This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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	Precursors to today’s diy culture include the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement and its self-built communities, Dadaism in Berlin in the 1920s with its slogan ‘Dilettantes—rise up against art!’, counter-culture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s such as the ''Survival Scrapbooks'' of UK artist/musician/<br>		Precursors to today’s diy culture include the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement and its self-built communities, Dadaism in Berlin in the 1920s with its slogan ‘Dilettantes—rise up against art!’, counter-culture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s such as the ''Survival Scrapbooks'' of UK artist/musician/<br>

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	/hertz-2terms-202011181901.pdf.</ref> Its close cousin is the French ‘bricolage’ both in its literal, everyday sense (‘bricolage’ hardware shops) and in its wider application in cultural anthropology and philosophy.<ref>Such as the concepts of philosophical ‘bricolage’ <br>		/hertz-2terms-202011181901.pdf.</ref> Its close cousin is the French ‘bricolage’ both in its literal, everyday sense (‘bricolage’ hardware shops) and in its wider application in cultural anthropology and philosophy.<ref>Such as the concepts of philosophical ‘bricolage’ <br>
	by Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Jacques Derrida, ''Writing and Difference'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 [1967]).</ref> The literal meaning of diy is a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of someone without professional training, typically in makeshift or even crude ways.		by Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Jacques Derrida, ''Writing and Difference'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 [1967]).</ref> The literal meaning of diy is a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of someone without professional training, typically in makeshift or even crude ways.


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	Counter-cultural diy became commodified as early as in the 1970s with the ''Whole Earth Catalog'',<ref>Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, ''The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside'' (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013).</ref> an alternative lifestyle periodical and product catalogue. In the 1980s, the focus of its publishers shifted to home computing, early electronic social media and, ultimately, the Californian Internet economy.<ref>Fred Turner, ''From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).</ref> Around the same time, punk and hip hop gave new meanings to diy. In punk, everyone could be their own fashion designer, a musician by playing only three guitar chords, and a graphic designer and publisher by making zines. Hip hop’s early music production technology of scratching vinyl records was born out <br>of poverty and diy improvisation.		Counter-cultural diy became commodified as early as in the 1970s with the ''Whole Earth Catalog'',<ref>Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, ''The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside'' (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013).</ref> an alternative lifestyle periodical and product catalogue. In the 1980s, the focus of its publishers shifted to home computing, early electronic social media and, ultimately, the Californian Internet economy.<ref>Fred Turner, ''From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).</ref> Around the same time, punk and hip hop gave new meanings to diy. In punk, everyone could be their own fashion designer, a musician by playing only three guitar chords, and a graphic designer and publisher by making zines. Hip hop’s early music production technology of scratching vinyl records was born out <br>of poverty and diy improvisation.

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	These subcultures turned diy from merely a poetics <br>(in the literal sense of poiesis as ‘<mark class="c5">making</mark>’) into a simultaneous poetics, aesthetics and—to some degrees—ethos and politics.		These subcultures turned diy from merely a poetics <br>(in the literal sense of poiesis as ‘<mark class="c5">making</mark>’) into a simultaneous poetics, aesthetics and—to some degrees—ethos and politics.
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	Subcultures and artist projects can converge in radical diy practices that are: self-taught, self-built, self-funded, happening in self-organized spaces using self-built infrastructure, with self-organized		Subcultures and artist projects can converge in radical diy practices that are: self-taught, self-built, self-funded, happening in self-organized spaces using self-built infrastructure, with self-organized communication and <mark class="c5">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to an individual, a collective or a community.

	~~<div class="no-indent">~~communication and <mark class="c5">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to ~~<br>~~
	an individual, a collective or a community.~~</div>~~

	This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>		This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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	Precursors to today’s diy culture include the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement and its self-built communities, Dadaism in Berlin in the 1920s with its slogan ‘Dilettantes—rise up against art!’, counter-culture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s such as the ''Survival Scrapbooks'' of UK artist/musician/<br>		Precursors to today’s diy culture include the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement and its self-built communities, Dadaism in Berlin in the 1920s with its slogan ‘Dilettantes—rise up against art!’, counter-culture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s such as the ''Survival Scrapbooks'' of UK artist/musician/<br>

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	<div class="no-indent">communication and <mark class="c5">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to <br>		<div class="no-indent">communication and <mark class="c5">distribution</mark>. ‘Self’ may refer to <br>
	an individual, a collective or a community./div>		an individual, a collective or a community.</div>

	This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>		This makes diy a phenomenon that is concerned with autonomy. ‘Autonomy’, when translated literally from Greek to English, means ‘self-governance’. In the context of artists’ diy, autonomy is a poetics, and hence a categorically different notion of autonomy than that of aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller to Adorno and Rancière. Instead of an idealist concept, autonomy becomes a <mark class="c6">material practice</mark>. Or perhaps more precisely: in diy culture, autonomy is being actively created—and permanently negotiated—in and through the <mark class="c6">material practice</mark> of its community members. Re-applied to art, this means, to quote David Teh’s characterization of ruangrupa, to further ‘autonomy of artists, singular or plural, but not necessarily that of the artwork’.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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	Diy culture becomes problematic as a term if one extends the perspective to non-Western and non-industrialized countries where self-making and makeshift improvisation is not an exception, but <br>		Diy culture becomes problematic as a term if one extends the perspective to non-Western and non-industrialized countries where self-making and makeshift improvisation is not an exception, but <br>
	the rule.		the rule.

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	<div class="no-indent">In understandings of the term since the early 2000s, diy stands for an alternative to industrial capitalism and its products, and for the convergence of what used to be called ‘alternative culture’ and ‘self-organized arts’.<ref>Such as, comprehensively, in Amy Spencer, ''DIY: The Rise of Lo-fi Culture'' (New York: Marion Boyars, 2005).</ref></div>		<div class="no-indent">In understandings of the term since the early 2000s, diy stands for an alternative to industrial capitalism and its products, and for the convergence of what used to be called ‘alternative culture’ and ‘self-organized arts’.<ref>Such as, comprehensively, in Amy Spencer, ''DIY: The Rise of Lo-fi Culture'' (New York: Marion Boyars, 2005).</ref></div>

	As opposed to the more established terms ‘artist-run space’ and ‘artists collective/initiative’, contemporary ‘diy spaces’ (that exist particularly in the USA) imply no clear-cut separation between artists ~~<br>~~		As opposed to the more established terms ‘artist-run space’ and ‘artists collective/initiative’, contemporary ‘diy spaces’ (that exist particularly in the USA) imply no clear-cut separation between artists and non-artists, professionals and non-professionals, and include artists of all trades, musicians, community organizers, political activists, squatters, bohemians, artists and their audiences. ‘diy culture’ in this sense has the connotation of cultural work that can no longer be firmly placed under the moniker ‘art’, at least not fine art.<ref>Although, historically, many contemporary art careers grew out of diy collectives. Examples include Gordon Matta-Clark and the FOOD restaurant collective of the early 1970s and Sherry Levine and Jenny Holzer as members of New York’s Colab collective in the late 1970s to mid-1980s.</ref>
	and non-artists, professionals and non-professionals, and include artists of all trades, musicians, community organizers, political activists, squatters, bohemians, artists and their audiences. ‘diy culture’ in this sense has the connotation of cultural work that can no longer be firmly placed under the moniker ‘art’, at least not fine art.<ref>Although, historically, many contemporary art careers grew out of diy collectives. Examples include Gordon Matta-Clark and the FOOD restaurant collective of the early 1970s and Sherry Levine and Jenny Holzer as members of New York’s Colab collective in the late 1970s to mid-1980s.</ref>

	Between the two extremes of diy as (a) counterculture and (b) home improvement stores there is the technological diy of hacker and ‘maker’ culture (<mark class="c5">critical making</mark>). With the boom of fab labs and maker spaces, this type of ‘diy’ has become its <br>		Between the two extremes of diy as (a) counterculture and (b) home improvement stores there is the technological diy of hacker and ‘maker’ culture (<mark class="c5">critical making</mark>). With the boom of fab labs and maker spaces, this type of ‘diy’ has become its <br>

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