In the 21st century technology is evermore airtight, closed to the gazing eye, rejecting repair and facilitating disposal. We are part of the capitalist mode of production, surrounded by highly scripted objects, prey to planned obsolescence and its evil counterpart, perceived obsolescence.
Technological disobedience, is the Cuban’s systematic disrespect towards complexity, closeness and exclusionary characteristics of industrial objects' and their logics. “Worker, build your own machinery” Che Guevara Insisted in a 1961 speech as the Republic of Cuba faces scarcity of resources due to the country's economical and political crisis, perhaps a brief reminder of the Marxist atrocities. Cuban workers were to strategise a self production, repair, reuse and repurpose as the Communist wealth diminished. A re-appropriation of technology took place and trickled down from an industrial necessity, to domestic commonplace.
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