LEADER 03969nam 22005893 450 001 996716701003316 005 20250116080250.0 010 $a9781503641495 010 $a150364149X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503641495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31877939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31877939 035 $a(CKB)37200585400041 035 $a(OCoLC)1485002553 035 $a(DE-B1597)698228 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503641495 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937200585400041 100 $a20250116d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommon Circuits $eHacking Alternative Technological Futures 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aRedwood City :$cStanford University Press,$d2025. 210 4$d©2025. 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 311 08$a9781503640603 311 08$a1503640604 311 08$a9781503641488 311 08$a1503641481 327 $aFront Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: 00001010 Experiments with "Hacking" -- Introduction. Circuits in Common -- One. Noisebridge: An Experiment in Radical Openness -- Two. Altman: Yearning for Community -- Three. Chaihuo: Between Gifts and Commodities -- Four. NalaGinrut: Hacking as Spiritual Calling -- Five. Tokyo Hacker Space: Bricoleurs Respond to the Disaster -- Six. Gniibe: Hacking to Do No Harm -- Conclusion. Are Hackerspaces Prefiguring: Technopolitical Alternatives? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aHow hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement?from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing?has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker collectives prefigure more just technological futures through community projects? Luis Felipe R. Murillo responds to these urgent questions with an analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial, shared technologies. Through rich explorations of hacker space histories and biographical sketches of hackers who participate in them, Murillo describes the social and technical conditions that allowed for the creation of community projects such as anonymity and privacy networks to counter mass surveillance; community-made monitoring devices to measure radioactive contamination; and small-scale open hardware fabrication for the purposes of technological autonomy. Murillo shows how hacker collectives point us toward brighter technological futures?a renewal of the "digital commons"?where computing projects are constantly being repurposed for the common good. 606 $aTechnology & Engineering / Social Aspects$2bisacsh 610 $aAnthropology of Technology. 610 $aComputing Expertise. 610 $aHackerspaces. 610 $aHacking. 610 $aOpen Technology. 610 $aScience and Technology Studies. 610 $aTransnationality. 615 7$aTechnology & Engineering / Social Aspects. 676 $a303.4833 700 $aMurillo$b Luis Felipe R$01895505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996716701003316 996 $aCommon Circuits$94548413 997 $aUNISA