[hackerspaces] Differences between hackerspaces and fablabs

[Ben Brown]

I've read that article before. I agree with some of it's positions,
though I question the notions that today's hackerspaces are actively
exclusionary of ethnic and social groups, and that they're doing more
harm than good if they're not expressly politically motivated.

I like to think that hackerspaces/makerspaces/whatever in general are
already rallying against the status quo simply by continually existing
and promoting alternative values in a consumerist and predominantly
anti-DIY society, regardless of whether the counter-culturalists of
decades ago approve or not.

Ben

On 5/13/2014 10:46 AM, Edward L Platt wrote:
> Required reading: "Hacking The Spaces" by Johannes Grenzfurthner and
> Frank Apunkt Schneider.  http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Ben Brown <ben at generik.ca
> <mailto:ben at generik.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On 5/12/2014 8:16 PM, maxigas wrote:
>     > I would argue that everything that came after hackerspaces is merely
>     > capitalising on the struggles and works of hackers to invent an
>     > attitude to technology which prooved to be immensely innovative and
>     > incredibly excititing, while deluting its politics and denying their
>     > roots because they don't have to figth for it the same way any more.
>
>     This is where you lost me. What has (detrimentally) changed now
>     that the
>     concept of hackerspaces is becoming popular? I don't believe any space
>     has ever clung to the exact ideals and philosophies of another. Do you
>     believe that new spaces don't need to fight for existence?
>
>     Ben
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