nettime Hackers 2.0 IGEM produces 'hacker ethic' for biology

???http://www.etcgroup.org/synthetic_biology_explained Certainly seems that the hipster grassroots bottom up ethic of the hacker is being brought to new places. Nettime participants have for some time been sceptical of the 'hacker ethic'; was it now being colonised? I remember a while back on

nettime the return of the network commons

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, some of you have probably already noticed this via fb or rss, I am writing a new book on, working title, The Rise of the Network Commons. It returns to the topos of the wireless commons on which I worked during the early 2000s. In this new

nettime Empyre list discussion on ISIS, Absolute Terror, Performance

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nettime Hackers 2.0 IGEM produces 'hacker ethic' for biology

???http://www.etcgroup.org/synthetic_biology_explained Certainly seems that the hipster grassroots bottom up ethic of the hacker is being brought to new places. Nettime participants have for some time been sceptical of the 'hacker ethic'; was it now being colonised? I remember a while back on

Re: nettime Hackers 2.0 IGEM produces 'hacker ethic' for biology

Hi Michael, that's quite an interesting take on biohacking. People who have witnessed the emergence of DIYbio (the do-it-yourself biology network that was started back in 2008 in the US) say that the direct intervention of the FBI was key in shaping the movement. The FBI attended DIYbio