The Village Voice

Type hello to the nascent "hacker class," McKenzie 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
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