Wark also, fwiw, wrote the Hacker Manifesto [1]. Although, ironically, I can't imagine her views there would be that well received on HN.
1. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674015432
Wark also, fwiw, wrote the Hacker Manifesto [1]. Although, ironically, I can't imagine her views there would be that well received on HN.
1. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674015432
It is fascinating that hacker and open source culture doesn't necessarily lead to materialist analyses of ownership and production. Makes me wonder, though, what other philosophies would such behavior prescribe?
Combine that with the simple (and I think understandable at the time) belief in a cyber-tinted technological determinism, along with billions of dollars worth of investors, and its easy to see what we have now: at best, full-tilt neoliberal rationalism, and at worst, libertarianism.
The Californian Ideology was written by Richard Barbrook, who subsequently wrote a book on Debords tabletop game _The Game of War_.