In this article, we intend to reflect on the impacts caused by the introduction of digital manufacturing technologies in the context of peripheral countries, such as Brazil, through the international Maker Movement. To this end, some of the slogans most frequently used by the self-appointed makers are taken to identify their main theoretical inconsistencies, which have led to a little conscious design practice with respect to the complexity of the issues involving the political economy and the politics of knowledge implied in the theme.