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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647498003321

Autore

Söderberg Johan <1976->

Titolo

Resistance to the current : the dialectics of hacking / / Johan Söderberg and Maxigas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : The MIT Press, , 2022

ISBN

0-262-37201-0

0-262-37200-2

9780262372015

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Collana

Information Policy

Disciplina

005.8/7

Soggetti

Hacking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Dialectics of Hacking-- 2. Theorizing Critique and Recuperation-- 3. Community Wireless Networks: A Darknet of Light-- 4. Open-Source 3D Printing: Reproducing Machines and Social Relations-- 5. Hackerspaces: Memory and Forgetting Through Generations of Shared Machine Shops-- 6. Internet Relay Chat: A Time Machine that Stood the Test of Time-- 7. Conclusion: The Struggle Ahead.

Sommario/riassunto

"Argues that hacking provides a privileged vantage point for probing the logic of informational capitalism since hackers are at the forefront of structural transformations of late modernity"-- Provided by publisher.