_thinkMake Week-05-:reading -04(Making Do: Uses And Tactics)

 

Making Do: Uses And Tactics

 

While reading, the following paragraph will serve as my explanation of what I understood:

La permque is the practise of using business time and resources for personal or hobby projects. An example of this would be working at a timber mill and using surplus pieces to build a cabinet during work hours. This is a growingly popular practise that incorporates individual artistic tricks and competitions into a system of reproduction and planning through work or leisure. Workplace cultures that disguising economic reproduction through narratives of communication, surprise, or truth proliferate and enable work to be divided, totaled, and tabulated.

These repurposed modes of use proliferate as a result of the expansion of the acculturation phenomenon, which replaces previous ways of migrating towards the identification of an individual based on their place of employment or residence. The manner in which these modes of usage are employed and controlled inside the system define and distinguish them, not the location. They are a component of the system that makes it possible for locations to be created in a certain way; they are not more localised than clerical and scriberic practises.

The text explores the concept of consumption, a form of production that is often associated with stereotypical procedures and customs. It highlights the ambiguity of the term, as it is often a matter of recognizing the formality and influence of these actions in the context of consumption. The text suggests that cultural products are not just data for statistics or economic functioning but also part of the repertoire with which users carry out their own operations. It questions what consumers make of the images broadcast by television and the time spent in front of the TV set. The text also discusses the enigma of the consumer sphinx, who is scattered in elevated urbanistic and commercial production, becoming less visible due to the tightly woven networks surrounding them. The text concludes by highlighting the unique nature of consumption, characterized by its ruses, fragmentation, poaching, clandestine nature, and quasi-invisibility.

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