Skillful work

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from The world of Levi-Strauss

bricolage

"Starting from tools that are not made for the work that needs to be done, doing one's own work"

Making do with what is available

Using residues from previous structures that are no longer used, for new structures

Not making anything specifically for this purpose

Analysis (extracting elements from various pre-existing wholes)

Synthesis (creating new wholes from these heterogeneous elements)

Cleverly arranging the lack of what is produced by skillfully arranging the remaining residues

["The technician questions the universe, but the bricoleur strikes at the substructure of culture, the reservoir of residues of all the past cultural systems, a sort of low-water mark."

This is precisely a binary opposition.