We have finally seen suggestions how to plug hacktivism into the fashion system. It
is this symbiosis between the DIY approach and exclusive fashion that can offer
new ways for reflection and participation and open passages through the border
between active and passive, auteur and audience, producer and consumer, profes-
sional and amateur. Here we see a new designer role active, the “catalyst crafter”, a
fearless facilitator creating new action spaces and material publics where the once
separated fields meet to form new alliances, complementary to the established
fashion system.
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When we look back we can see some of the hacktivist components reoccur through-
out the lines of practice we have examined. We can identify some of the mecha-
nisms that are assembling the abstract machine of hacktivism, what perhaps Chris-
topher Polhem would have called the mechanical “letters” guiding its diagram of
becoming. This is similar to the six functions employed in classical Greece thought
from which they could construct any type of machine. These are the principal sub-
functions of hacktivism.