form synergetic alliances. Most importantly, experiment with how these new vec-
tors will work when plugged into the existing fashion system.
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What we have seen throughout this chapter is how amateurs and designers can
engage to create their own vectors and “talk back” to the system. This is a practice
closely related to hacking as their channels use loopholes in the existing system to
reach out or amplify their message. We have looked at how fan fiction writers use
the existing narratives of popular culture to insert their own artistic efforts into the
original stories and reveal new interpretations and realize hidden potentials. This
works as an empowering tactic as fans communities grow and share stories, show-
ing they are not alone, but instead boost each other’s efforts.
Likewise, amateurs make their own personal zines to document the everyday in a
new light, where even the “losers” in the system can take pride and bond with like-
minded across their DIY distribution networks. This type of zine can also be em-
powering for marginalized communities as in the examples of the Duplex Planet
zine and the telestreet channel Disco Volante. The concept of these examples are
implemented in the editorless local zine Syntax/144 where fashion designers ex-
plore other ways to form equalitarian alliances in order to assemble a shared vector
outside the reach of gatekeepers or editors.
These shared zines offer their own additions, creating their own “imitative rays” to
intersect and mix uncontrolled through the format of the zine. Within the hosting
media, where the plugged-in zine reside, new intensities emerge. These intensities
bridge the global and the local, the official with the unofficial and edited content
with autonomous alliances in a new symbiogenesis between vectors. The syntax/144
is but one possible example of an editorless vector, and projects in the future may
tell how various modes of co-authorship can offer interfaces for temporary fashion
alliances to plug new intensities back into the system.