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Hackers.

Posted on October 24, 2014 ·

Wark’s work “A Hackers Manifesto,” was written in an interesting way.” I found myself reading it like it was a code or like a poem because all the subjects that Wark writes about seemed to connect like hackers connects with manifestation, production, etc.

A quote I enjoyed was “To hack is to produce or apply the abstract to information and express the possibility of new worlds.” I think he is trying to say that hacking simply comes from an idea that is abstract because at the moment it doesn’t exist only to the mind of the creator but then it turns into something real.

Many people would give hackers a bad reputation like the freaks and geeks that are mentioned in paragraph 03, because hackers are known to tamper with what is not theirs. But in this text he doesn’t give the impression that he is blaming them for doing something that people may consider as illegal. Instead, Wark’s writing has a tone of respect of the process and explains of a hacker.

In paragraph 03, I think Wark is trying to say that we don’t know how to explain how we are different from other individuals from the class we choose to be in. He gives us different sections that can help us better explain how we produce, abstract, and manifest what we do. Although “A Hackers Manifesto,” mainly explains the process, influence, and impact hackers have to the world, I think it can be abstract to other classes. In a way, we are like hackers because there we are more involved in many aspects of life than just being a hacker, artist, philosopher, and other classes or professions. I would have to agree with Warker’s point that we are all hackers because we are influence by other and history. We take what we learn and manifest it to our own art in life.

 

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