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(15 August 2015, 22:55)Scythe13 Wrote: Have checked out a friend's Cuban book, I think it was called Technological Disobedience. Dedicated to this kind of thing. It was an artist whom dedicated his spare time to collecting the developments and changes to Cuban 'internal engineering'. From what I had read of Sam's book, the Cuban gov sent out a list of books about it, then complied a separate book of their own that was readily available.

s13 - thanks - a +1 for that response which got me researching a bit more.

The artist in question was Ernesto Ouza and an interview with him can be found here. http://www.vice.com/video/the-technologi...esto-oroza

He calls it technological disobedience because it goes against all the 'rules' that the object was originally intended for. (It also betrays the artists somewhat marxist worldview imho)

A more western word might be 'disruption'. When the americans left cuba and tried to isolate it, the people had to make do. The situation got even worse when the Soviet Union fell and Cuba entered what was called "The Special Period in Time of Peace".

Fidel encouraged people to bastardize bits and pieces and the Cuban army published a book called "The Book for the Family" which was a compilation of data from around the world.

A couple of years later they published another book of the peoples contributions called "With our Own Hands"

You can download this *rather large item HERE.

Finally in the spirit in which this is intended, a rather young Jeremy Clarkson visits Cuba and finds brake fluid being made locally
HERE

Hope you find these useful