DIY

one paragraph that stood out

Oroza, who has spent decades collecting, studying and writing about these objects, has a name for the phenomenon: “technological disobedience.” Cubans, he said, weren’t deterred by complexity or scale, and they learned to disrespect the “authority” of objects. That meant rethinking their original purpose and life cycle.

within this disposable economy, we desperately need to (re)learn to “disrespect the authority of objects”