An Interview with McKenzie Wark on the 10 Yr Anniversary of “A Hacker Manifesto”(lareviewofbooks.org)
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An Interview with McKenzie Wark on the 10 Yr Anniversary of “A Hacker Manifesto”
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“I think the possibilities for new futures come not from resisting but from accelerating technical development even under present conditions. There’s no way back; we can only go forward.”
Brilliantly summed up.
Brilliantly summed up.
Sorry, but Mckenzie Wark is not a "hacker" in any sense of the word. As near as I can tell he's a careerist whose main skill is a mastery of the politics of the echo chamber. His obscurantist style is a regression to the worst excesses of post-hegelian academic discourse. And no matter how technophilic it is, cannot mask the fact that the author does not know what he is talking about.
That academic philosophy provides a welcoming habitat for such authors is an indictment of the academy; not a valedictory for it's inhabitants.