Re: [-empyre-] transgression anyway

[hight@34n118w.net]

>What is the line between tech fetish and intellectual rebel fetish and
the discussion of this "new" voice?     The good hacker works with
security systems and tests bugs and holes but is benign.  The bad
hacker......well, i'd be a fool to even bother to redundantly define
this.  Isn't it really dangerous to glamourize this outlaw stance and
shadow mythology?  This is what creates the malignant hacker ( the
manifesto even says so).  The dangerous rebel is exciting to analyze at a
distance, but that distant voice if reiterated in publication seems very
dangerously equivalent to just making this invisible netherworld and
impotent virulence seem that much sexier to more awkward 15 year olds
bored in school.

  Hell, I was one myself; I tested highly gifted and still did the answers
in my head, was anooyed and tuned out for a while as i still wasn't
challenged.  I think the academic community really needs to be careful
about what seems sexy in discourse.  I have had several major virus
attacks over the years ruin files, require complete re-installation of
the hard drive etc....

This manifesto is a call to arms, nothing more.

jeremy










 We have to reinvent; if we went out of the era of the production (of the
> criticism of the political economy) then let us take place beyond the
> question of the technique as resource of class: which possesses it, who
> produces thanks it, who fires his resource from it, etc...?
>
> But ubiquity of hypermedia and the recent laws of control which accompany
> it: what do you think of? What transgression (malpractice) is possible
> which
> can be otherwise watched or only of the mist expert hackers? (thus far
> from
> the common social practice shared in the every day life?)
>
> We are far from situtationnists in that case.
>
> I know well that there is a position at the same moment new, poetic, but
> ambiguous
> at the same time -traditionally political- of McKenzie Wark in A to hacker
> manifesto (of which personally I get ready to publish the long version to
> French-speaking territories with his agreement; because I followed the
> development of this text since the first version in subsol - that we have
> translated to our symposium in 2002- until the publication by Harvard
> Press -in any case) and moreover: what do you think of it concerning the
> theme of this debate?
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
>
> http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=a+hacker+manifesto&btnG=Recherche+Google&meta=
> (but I am sure that you know of Ken -ever you feel good ever you feel bad
> of
> him - personally he sis a friend of me but I can hear any criticisms - and
> I
> make so for any one by myself)
> http://www.criticalsecret.com/n10/A%20HACKER%20MANIFESTO/index.php (short
> version and translation)
>
> http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html
>
> His conference during our symposium
> http://www.criticalsecret.com/n10/McKENZIE%20WARK/ (bi-lingual) " Escape
> from the dual empire "
>
> http://www.criticalsecret.com/n10/index.php#sommaire
>
>
> Frankly what you do think?
>
> ""You will go at the church and say of your voice: "God is dead" " of the
> Stasbourg manifesto is far from us... Or say: hypermedia -that of the
> early
> time of Free media- is dead and say it online. Could you imagine that? -or
> not possible.
>
> We are addict with the hypermedia, addict with the transitive
> communication
> in real time and all that... But for another part it is our peculiar
> knowledge, this way to invent of a part of us, this way to meet together
> with this part and to meet all anyway from East to West and from North to
> South of the planet and much more: so what right now?
>
> And this another vision of the hacker as the mentor?
> http://cybercrimes.net/Property/Hacking/Hacker%20Manifesto/HackerManifesto.html
> where transgression is the subject.
>
> (all the contrary of the situationnism: so what? which changes and
> differences of our times is it designed in such texts?)
>
> A.
>
>
>
>
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