Quoting simulation weblog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In my view all programmers should be sent on a fine arts degree course, and obliged to wake up every morning and ask themselves just what it is they are doing and why.
From personal experience I wouldn't recommend it. You get very, very depressed.
The folk culture of hackers is interesting and is sociologically/culturally tractable. It ain't high art, but then very little ever is.
Hackers are the navvies of the age. net.art is their songs (or possibly their corn dollies or their string Concordes).
It's only so-called 'programmers' who claim to be doing something ontologically different, something 'special'. How long before one of them simply signs one of those Japanese toilets that flush themselves, and tries to pass it off as a 'work of programming'?
Hackers are just doing what they do. The great claims for hacking are made by the would-be ventriloquists of the conference circuit(s).
Cultural theorists (sic) will wear the t-shirt of whatever trend is currently hot. While trading in their Deleuze for some Zizek far too many have discovered Free Software and made the classic mistake (or move) of presuming it to be an historically inexplicable phenomena devoid of any theory, criticality or reflexivity of its own.
God help those who then go on to read "The Cathedral And The Bazaar". - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
