Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-23 Thread Jaromil
On October 21, 2015 5:47:57 PM GMT+02:00, Carsten Agger wrote: >Ironically, the article you link to is behind a pay/login wall and I'm >asked to choose if I want to "enter with Google+" or "Enter with >Facebook". > >Another example of the encroaching colonization of the Internet, I >guess. pe

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-21 Thread Carsten Agger
Den 21-10-2015 kl. 17:15 skrev Jaromil: <...> I don't get what you mean, can you explain? meanwhile: http://ilmanifesto.info/maker-faire-alla-sapienza-violenta-carica-della-polizia-contro-gli-studenti/ protests escalated with 4 student arrests, 10 students armed of which 2 with serious head i

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-21 Thread Jaromil
dear Patrice, On 12 October 2015 10:10:04 CEST, patrice wrote: >The answer to this, dear Jaromil, is oeuf corse to simply 'do it' (the >practical work on the ground and in the streets) - and not talk too >much about it since it attracts all kinds of un-called for, time >wasting - or worse - atte

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-12 Thread patrice
The answer to this, dear Jaromil, is oeuf corse to simply 'do it' (the practical work on the ground and in the streets) - and not talk too much about it since it attracts all kinds of un-called for, time wasting - or worse - attention. Meanwhile let's keep nettime as the enjoyable digi-paper of

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-12 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
hi! spot on the topic, in Rome's university La Sapienza yesterday researchers and students were protesting with a peaceful sit-in... against the Maker Faire! http://ilmanifesto.info/alla-sapienza-contestata-la-maker-faire-una-vetrina-per-il-business-sullinnovazione/ on the topic: htt

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-10-11 Thread Jaromil
dear nettimers, spot on the topic, in Rome's university La Sapienza yesterday researchers and students were protesting with a peaceful sit-in... against the Maker Faire! http://ilmanifesto.info/alla-sapienza-contestata-la-maker-faire-una-vetrina-per-il-business-sullinnovazione/ besides the fact t

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-14 Thread Alessandro Delfanti
Well, we are most certainly not sympathetic with processes of co-option that transform oppositional cultures and integrate them into capitalism's evolution The word "Recuperation" has been used to describe such processes--we may decide we want to use a better term but I believe the core issue i

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-12 Thread John Hopkins
Did hacking -- as a re-action to both its pedigree and the edifice of 'acceptable' social behavior -- ever escape the gravitational field of its genesis in The Machine itself? Can hacking exist without The Machine? The ultimate socialization of hackers follows the typical trajectory of the human

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-12 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
one of the many possible points of view: http://www.artisopensource.net/network/artisopensource/2015/06/08/conflict-and-transgression/ together with the imagination for a new type of garden, we need a new conception of gardner: âit is hard to imagine which aspect these gardens w

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-12 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Brian Holmes wrote: > But I would like off this treadmill. It's really unbearable. There has > to be a better way. Well, I don't think Alessandro and Jonas are defining our problem when switching from gentrification to recuperation. The former is already an edulcorated term,

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-11 Thread Brian Holmes
The philosopher Moishe Postone says that with every fresh growth cycle of capitalism new use values are created, offering common working people a sense of possibility, a feeling of experimentation and social transformation, that is the mainspring of the expansion itself. This happened in the ea

Re: 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 Br

Re: 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 http://efeefe.no-ip.org/

Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

2015-08-11 Thread none
cheers and much fun! aha0 xx On Mon, August 10, 2015 2:55 pm, Brett Scott wrote: > Dear Nettimers, > > My new essay in Aeon Magazine on 'The Gentrification of Hacking: How > yuppies hacked the hacker ethos' can be found here > > [1]http://aeon.co/magazine/technology

The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos

2015-08-10 Thread Brett Scott
Dear Nettimers, My new essay in Aeon Magazine on 'The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos' can be found here [1]http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos/. You can find a long excerpt below. Commen