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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ISBN
9780674044845
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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