By McKenzie Wark
ISBN-10: 0674015436
ISBN-13: 9780674015432
A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the digital truth of knowledge, programming or poetry, math or song, curves or colours upon which the fortunes of states and armies, businesses and groups now rely. The daring target of this e-book is to make take place the origins, function, and pursuits of the rising type answerable for making this new world--for generating the hot strategies, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of uncooked data.
A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory among the ever extra strident calls for through drug and media businesses for cover in their patents and copyrights and the pervasive pop culture of dossier sharing and pirating. This vexed floor, the area of so-called "intellectual property," offers upward push to an entire new type of category clash, one who pits the creators of information--the hacker category of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers--against a owning classification who may monopolize what the hacker produces.
Drawing in equivalent degree on man Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto bargains a scientific restatement of Marxist suggestion for the age of our on-line world and globalization. within the common rebel opposed to commodified info, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, past the valuables shape, and a brand new innovative type, the hacker classification, who voice a shared curiosity in a brand new info commons.
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