A Hacker Manifesto
A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark, published by Harvard University Press on October 4, 2004, is a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between technology and social conflict. This first edition, comprising 208 pages, delves into the complexities of the emerging hacker class and their role in shaping the virtual reality of information, programming, and art. Wark articulates the tensions between the demands of corporations for intellectual property protection and the widespread culture of file sharing, highlighting the new class struggles that arise in this digital age.
Readers will find a systematic restatement of Marxist thought as it applies to cyberspace and globalization, drawing on the ideas of influential thinkers like Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze. The book examines the dynamics between creators of information and those who seek to monopolize it, presenting a vision of a new information commons. Through this lens, Wark identifies the hacker class—comprising researchers, artists, and programmers—as a progressive force advocating for a shared interest in the digital landscape.
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A double is haunting the world–the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world–for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data.
A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called “intellectual property,” gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information–the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers–against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces.
Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.
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