ABSTRACT
This chapter, engages with ideas about the place of human labour in digital production practices. In engaging with literature on labour, bodies, and infrastructure, it looks at the intersections of those three concepts, as they relate to custom and mass-custom production, as well as digital fabrication tools and their precursors. Engaging with the trajectory that others have previously indicated in which the atomization of labour takes both embodied knowledge and exertion away from the labourer, one of the issues this chapter is concerned with is to what extent digital fabrication tools can or cannot de-alienate us from the products and conditions of our labour. Or, seen from a more abstract level, this chapter is concerned with where expertise resides.
