Re: [-empyre-] Matrixial Encounters

[saul ostrow <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>]

Capitalist (bourgeois) relationships (those of ownership)  are now,  as
in the past a fetter on the development of the means of production --
within such a environment  "Hackers" no more make up a class in the
classical sense of that word then the militants  (from the luddites to
the Maoist) who in the name of various ideologies sought to combat
capital -- and in actuality by classic Marxist -Leninist terms they are
adventurist  because their actions are volunteristic -- directed by no
class vision and lacking ties to those classes in whose name they act 
-- to identify this individualism and lack of discipline and the
resulting spontaneity as liminal is to romanticize the Hacker  who seem
to occupy no more than a petite bourgeois position as a facilitator who 
has already been appropriated into the capital's research and
development dept.