The Hacker Manifesto: McKenzie Wark

Let me start by saying I HATE hackers… I can not stand them they have crashed many of my computers and even stolen my credit card information on more than one occasion. And with that being said, the second point in this manifesto pisses me off more than I can communicate with words. “Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. In art, in science, in philosophy and culture, in any production of knowledge where data can be gathered, where information can be extracted from it, and where in that information new possibilities for the world are produced, there are hackers hacking the new out of the old.”     McKinzie goes on to say that they do not own what they produce, just like in my preveous entry, Marcin Ramocki saying we do not own what we create, but when it comes to hackers, if I ever catch who took my credit card information I will procicute them to the fullest extent of the law. You can not tell me that when a hacker decides to hack into someone personal information that they do not own that acting. That is pure bull shit.      They call what they produce as new to the world. They even say it may not all be good but it is still something new. Yeah, a new computer for the poor sap who didn’t have his firewall on that day.      I am sorry I can not sit here and read this thinking it is a new art or think that what they are doing is not their own action and that they are not responsible for what they do. I just cant. I can not read this crap as a nutral party.

~ by beckyjay on December 14, 2007.