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« Imaginez que vous pouviez construire une ville qui est partagée. »L’image d’un monde partagé, séparé, voilà ce qu’il nous reste. Finalement,c’est tout ce qu’il y a dire. Chaque chose est bien à sa place. Tout est bien en mouvement. Sous le son de la lyre et l’ombre de l’épée, la frontière se pousse toujours vers l’avant. Et elle reste. Elle fonce vers un avenir toujours jamais là. Au-delà de l’Arbre sec, elle ne trouve jamais que le même. Et de ce côté-ci, celui de la ville, jamais n’a-t-on été autant réunie en si grande proximité… en si grande promiscuité. En 1941, entre l’Espagne et la France, Benjamin compose ses dernières lignes : « Il ne me reste pas assez de temps pour écrire toutes ses lettres que j’eusse voulu écrire » (Adorno & Benjamin, 2006, p. 390). Il laisse derrière lui son Livre des passages, monumental projet inachevé dont le temps alimentera l’aura. Composé d’images en apparence éloignées - structures de métal, jeu, Baudelaire, caricatures– mais rapprochés par leur collage minutieux, à leur rencontre nous y trouvons pourtant la fulgurante lumière de la connaissance. 70 ans plus tard, la méthode comme les réflexions de Benjamin restent imprimées sur le ciel contemporain,porteuses d’une richesse toujours actuelle. Ce mémoire situé dans la tradition matérialiste, entre empirie et théorie, propose le collage de cinq situations : Second Life, Etsy, Voyage, Airbnb et l’oeuvre de Benjamin. Les uns au côté des autres, ils apportent un éclairage à la fois sur eux-mêmes, réalité matérielle, que sur une dialectique entre technologie, techniques, espace et lieu : le rapport entre le proche et le lointain. Guy Debord, le Nouveau Testament, la mystique juive et, bien sûr, Walter Benjamin seront nos guides dans cette quête dont le sens est défini par l’impératif de l’action. / « Imagine if you could build a city that is shared. »The image of a shared, separated, world, is what we have left. Finally, thisis the only thing that should be said. Everything at his right place. Everything in movement. Under the sound of the lyre or the shadow of the sword, the frontier is pushed forward. And it lives, charging to a future always never there. Beyond the Dry tree, it finds nothing but the same. And on this side, in the city, never were wegathered in so much proximity… and yet drifted so much further apart. In 1941, between Spain and France, Benjamin write his last lines : « I haveno more time left to write all those letters that I wanted to write ». He leaves behind his Passagenwerk, monumental unfinished projects but whose time will feed theaura. Made from images see mingly distant from each other - metal structures, panoramas, game, Baudelaire, caricatures – but brought closer by their collage, at their meeting, however, we find the brilliant light of knowledge. 70 years later, the method as for the reflexions of Benjamin illuminate the contemporary night sky, of an ever-persisting richness. This thesis in the materialist tradition, between empiry and theory, proposes the collage of five situations : Second Life, Etsy, Voyage,Airbnb and the work of Benjamin itself, which one beside the other brings lighting simultaneously on themselves, material reality, and on a dialectic between technology, technic, space and place : the relationship between the nearby and thefaraway. Guy Debord, the New Testament, the Jewish mystic and, of course, Walter Benjamin will be our guides in that quest whose meaning will be defined by the imperative of action.

In recent years, craft fairs, shows and markets where crafters sell their handmade goods such as pottery, jewelry, handmade clothes and needlework have grown in popularity across the United States. A common intent among individuals in this community echo political statements made by the turn of the century Arts and Crafts movement, while there are political aspects of the community that can also be seen as an extension of the third wave feminist do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic of the late 1990s. This newly enlarged community of crafters that congregates in person also has a strong online presence. Etsy.com plays a large role in this community. The introduction of websites such as Etsy.com to the communities they serve has widespread impacts. The aim of this study is to analyze how Etsy.com impacts the lives of women who use the website to earn income. Following ethnographic traditions, the researcher interviewed five community members. The focus was on thick description of the DIY community and thematization of interview narratives. To meet participant observation criteria, the researcher also volunteered at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland, Oregon for 4 months. Additionally, the researcher conducted a textual analysis of blogs, websites, artwork, and other sources of data collected from the online hand crafting community. The study presents and discusses the themes that emerged from the data, including women's work, feminism and technology, the crafters' political statements, the crafters as owners of legitimate businesses, and Etsy.com's impact on local economy. The results paint a picture of the community (both on and offline) and how Etsy.com helps to shape this. The researcher then discusses how to assess the impacts tools such as community websites will have on the communities they serve.

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