There is a motto, let's say myth, in the so-called Do-It-Yourself (DIY), usually spoken of as self-sufficiency. This self-sufficiency is an illusion that overlaps with how people are co-dependent on each other and nature. As absurd as it may seem for any living form to claim to be self-sufficient, the fact is that this myth is present in DIY and within the climate struggle. The myth of self-sufficiency is extremely attractive because of the individualism, self-interest, autonomy, and a particular idea of 'freedom' it contains. In a way, it is normative and produces a "standard" individual who is not very susceptible to transformation, even when they move into 'collaborative' modes. This also makes us wary of its 2.0 version, the Do-It-Together (DIT).
These 'do-it' that have spread through underground cultures, also captured by mainstream cultures, have a history of the relationship between technology and nature that needs to be problematized in the face of the climate emergency.
Using authors such as Richard Sennett, Anna Tsing, and Felix Guattari, this communication explores the contradictions and tensions of DIY and DIT dynamics, which are often established in resistance movements and tend to project a technical model onto the world, feeding the neoliberalism they aim to combat.
Beyond the technical perspective, or co-related to it, traditional DIY reinforces alienation by separating people and things from the world.
A radicalization of the concept involves an ecosophy with bodies.