Re: nettime The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-11 Thread none
Thanks for sharing! There's a sometime interesting discussion re essay in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033969 By the very yuppies of tech that seem to be mentioned.. Noticed that in terms of language, where as in the essay the pre-gentrified's signifier is itself as a sign - eg the

Re: nettime The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-11 Thread Jaromil
dear Brett, your essay is brilliant and obvious at the same time. I did enjoy reading it, but still feels like scratching the surface as it does not dig into other historical examples of cultural gentrification. It may go well along the read of Gambiarra by Felipe Fonseca

Re: nettime The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-11 Thread Alessandro Delfanti
Hi all, Johan Soderberg and I are writing this paper titled Repurposing the hacker. Three temporalities of recuperation. We do adopt a deeper historical framework while trying to understand how hacking has been hacked, and try to answer a more general question on how to analyze/avoid what