https://academia.fzrw.info/en/archives/2484 "When one begins to navigate through cyberpunk and related genres, it immediately becomes obvious that a programmer or a hacker often appears there as a magician-like figure. The name of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer (1984), one of the foundational texts of cyberpunk, hints that hacking is akin to μαντεια, divination. The 1999 movie The Matrix, full of Gnostic references, tells a story about hackers who, through digging into the depths of the net, find out that our world is a lie, an illusion, a computer simulation, and hack their way to freedom."
I haven't been excited by any academic writing for ages. But this piece is really excellent and I couldn't agree more with it. Wark's characterization of a hacker (mentioned herein) as “anyone whose efforts produce intellectual property” doesn't sit well with me, as it embeds the hacker firmly in a capitalist ethic where ideas can be owned. Nevertheless it is true that hackers can be divided roughly into the two camps exemplified by the tech bro (a servant of mammon) and the open source hacker (who seeks a distributed eudaimonia).
Stanislav Panin (npub1t4r…9tg7) I found some typos. If you email me at ooze@ooze.net I will email them to you.
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