A Hacker Manifesto

Wark, McKenzie

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“…Within the creative industries, regimes of intellectual property operate as an architecture of division: predominantly copyright in the cultural industries, but also patents that arise through technological innovation in the IT sector and trademarks in the advertising industry and its production of brands. McKenzie Wark (2004) considers the extension of intellectual property regimes with the advent of commercialized computer networks -what is generally understood as the Internet -to have produced a new class relation special to the information age. The antagonism between 'hackers' and 'vectoralists' moves around a property relation.…”

Section: The Death Of the Citizen-workermentioning

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Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception

Neilson

Rossiter

2008

Theory, Culture & Society

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In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us to see Fordism as exception and precarity as the norm. The political concept and practice of translation enables us to frame the precarity of creative labour in a broader historical and geographical perspective, shedding light on its contestation and relation to the concept of the common. Our interest is in the potential for novel forms of connection, subjectivization and political organization. Such processes of translation are themselves inherently precarious, transborder undertakings.

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Section: The Death Of the Citizen-workermentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception

Neilson

Rossiter

2008

Theory, Culture & Society

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274

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“…Apart from understanding its morality, it is an inspiring challenge to transfuse the essence of our experience and the values of the Web to reassess concepts like freedom, choice, participation, inequality and development. We agree with [40] that "It is not just information that must be free, but the knowledge of how to use it. The test of a free society is not the liberty to consume information, nor to produce it, nor even to implement its potential in private world of one's choosing.…”

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A Methodology for Internal Web Ethics

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The vigorous impact of the Web in time and space arises from the fact that it motivates massive creation, editing and distribution of information by Users with little knowledge. This unprecedented continuum provides novel opportunities for innovation but also puts under jeopardy its survival as a stable construct that nurtures a complex system of connections. We examine the Web as an ethics determined space by demonstrating Hayek's theory of freedom in a three-leveled Web: technological, contextualized and economic. Our approach accounts for the co-dependence of code and values, and assumes that the Web is a self-contained system that exists in and by itself. This view of internal Web ethics directly connects the concept of freedom with issues like centralization of traffic and data control, rights on visiting log file, custom User profiles and the interplay among function, structure and morality of the Web. It is also demonstrated, in the case of Net Neutrality, that generic freedom-coercion trade-offs are incomplete in treating specific cases at work.

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“…As in physical space, the ultimate value in the Web could be the ensurance of free will of Users to collectively transform Web beings (Wark 2004). The ongoing change in paradigm alters the content and means of achieving self-determination in and off the Web.…”

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Being, Space, and Time on the Web

Vafopoulos¹

2013

Philosophical Engineering

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The Web initially emerged as an "antidote" to accumulated scientific knowledge since it enables global representation and communication with minimum costs. Its gigantic scale and interdependence incommode our ability to find relevant information and develop trustworthy contexts. It is time for science to compensate by providing an epistemological "antidote" to Web issues. Philosophy should be in the front line by forming the salient questions and analysis. The scope of our research is to provide a theory about the Web being that will bridge philosophical thinking and engineering. We analyze existence and spatiotemporality in the Web and how it transforms the traditional actualities. The Web space is specified by incoming and outgoing links. The primordial role of visiting durations in Web's existence is approximated by Bergsonian time. The physical space becomes more discoverable. The human activity can be asynchronous, synchronous and continuous. Networked individuals operate in a flexible and spatially dispersed environment. The resulting issues concern the self-determination of a being and the way in which the Web could be a free and open platform for innovation and participation.

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A Hacker Manifesto

Cited by 253 publications

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Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception

Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception

A Methodology for Internal Web Ethics

Being, Space, and Time on the Web

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