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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: A Hacker Manifesto (fwd) - should be good - the book is (fwd)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:52:45 -0400 (EDT)
(may have sent this before, in which case apologies - Alan) Harvard University Press & McKenzie Wark invite you to a party to celebrate McKenzie's new book, A Hacker Manifesto. 6-8PM Thursday 21st October The Orozco Room New School University 66 w 12th st, 7th floor with DJ Javier Feliu DRINKS, EATS, BOOKS, BEATS rsvp: mw35@nyu.edu "What Ken Wark's book does is take us deep into the philosophy of hacking: it gives us a new way of seeing those irreverent folks who play for keeps with digital culture. It's not every day that you get a book that takes you deep into the realm of practical analysis of the ways that we abstract thought and action in search for more kicks on-line." Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid "Ours is once again an age of manifestos. Wark's book challenges the new regime of property relations with all the epigrammatic vitality, conceptual innovation, and revolutionary enthusiasm of the great manifestos." Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire "Wark's quality is to generate general theory out of singular experiences. Peculiar identities are liberated from their ghetto subculture contexts and turned into hegemonic politics. Hacking, according to Wark, is not a belief system but an emancipatory toolbox, ready to be used throughout society." Geert Lovink, author of Dark Fiber "Wark's manifesto is an opening salvo in this fresh form of class warfare. We have moved from the handloom weavers to the hackers, but the social logic remains the same... A searching, thoughtful meditation. The question that inspires it--where are the sources of resistance in postindustrial capitalism?--is a compelling one. This is a perceptive, provocative study, packed to the seams with acute analysis." Terry Eagleton, The Nation "Type hello to the nascent "hacker class," Wark's loose confederation of fixers, file sharers, inventors, shut-ins, philosophers, programmers, and pirates... The Lang College professor's ambitious A Hacker Manifesto Googles for signs of hope in this cyber-global-corporate-brute world of ours, and he fixes on the hackers, macro-savvy visionaries from all fields who "hack" the relationships and meanings the rest of us take for granted. If we hackers-of words, computers, sound, science, etc.-organize into a working, sociopolitical class, Wark argues, then the world can be ours." Hua Hsu, Village Voice For more information on the book: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html To order it from your favorite online bookstore: http://www.amazon.com http://www.barnesandnoble.com http://www.powells.com http://gleebooks.com.au