Galaxy and the New Wave: Yugoslav Computer Culture in the 1980s

Jakić, Bruno

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“…Meanwhile, underground, trained and untrained technologists, hackers, and playful youth alike cloned and produced their own unique computers and networks, a practice that continued and even flourished after socialism's demise (Fiscutean, 2018). Throughout Eastern Europe, such practices bestowed new modes of piracy, play, sharing, and kinship (Gutfrański, 2019;Haigh, 2007; | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 2) Erin McElroy, 2020 Imre, 2016;Jakić, 2014;Kind-Kovács & Labov, 2013;Stachniak, 2015;Švelch, 2018;Wasiak, 2014). Similar (yet also different) technological projects and imperatives can be seen throughout the globe, often having to do with entanglements of empire, the state, peripherality, making do, and subversion (Chan, 2018;Rai, 2019;Rosas, 2010).…”

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Corruption, Șmecherie, and Siliconization

McElroy

2020

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This article explores socialist and postsocialist technoculture in postsocialist Romania, focusing upon both retrospective and speculative accounts of what did, and what could have, transpired beyond the purview of the state and of capitalism. Upon a backdrop of postsocialist Siliconization and Western anticorruption politics, it looks to queer, corrupt, and deviant technological practices that pervert normative and Western accounts of socialism and its transition. In particular, this article sifts through speculative and retrospective accounts of hackers, computer cloners, and political artists and organizers, many of whom narrate technocultural practices of șmecherie—a Romanian word with Romani roots inferring cunningness and cleverness. These narrations, imaginations, and speculations, I suggest, corrupt postsocialist Siliconization and anticorruption politics through practices of cloning, play, excess, and kinship.

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