Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

[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.

perhaps even deeper political encroaching
if we consider that is a self declared
" communist newspaper "
...more considerations on the gentrification
topic may follow.

however sorry for that link
it was open access before, I guess they
close only the archive behind registration.

the article is all in Italian lang BTW
the news did not travel beyond that

ciao


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Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

[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 - attention. Meanwhile let's keep nettime as the
>enjoyable digi-paper of records of the chattering net.art.cult.philo
>classes. No bother and certainly no need to reform nettime into some
>mouthpiece of the one and only politically correct approach.

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 injuries. All this on the premises
of a university where once upon a time it was very unkosher
to have just one cop in uniform stepping in.

so now thanks to the makers faire and its oh-so-californian
ideology merge of cultural industries as education think tanks
we have a whole new front of cultural conflict -which we really
did not need.

As the protestors clearly stated, the makers movement is not
to be blamed for this, but perhaps the very gentrification Brett
writes about. The methodology, or ideology, of making a
business plan around anything, the ultra-liberal drive of turning
a cultural event into a faire, something that does not belong
to the premises of a university, unless we just start calling it
enterprise, as Agamben once suggested.

greets from gentrified Barcelona
pragmatically yours of course ;-)


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Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

[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 injuries. All this on the premises
of a university where once upon a time it was very unkosher
to have just one cop in uniform stepping in.


[...]

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.


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Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the

[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 the faire is blocking the access to some spaces of the
university with costly tickets, they also criticize the overall marketing
oriented nature of the event, where they say that the "business approach of the
Maker Faire is an actual contradiction of the philosophy of sharing and
cooperation that originated such initiatives"

the newspaper elaborates well on the arguments with some quotes and overall
bashing of the "capitalism 2.0" speculative attitude towards immaterial
commons. Of course, beware, this is a communist newspaper :^) yet the only to
cover such an interesting story... does one really needs to be a communist to
be critical in this ultra-lib ultra-opt(imism) world we are living in? seems so

For the occasion I recommend this publication of the D-CENT project, titled
"Managing the commons in the knowledge economy" (1.4MB download)

http://dcentproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/D3.2-complete-ENG-v2.pdf in
particular chapter 4.7 starting at page 71, titled "The maker movement. A
return to dawn in the logic of the commons?" which concludes with:

""

Authors like André Gorz even made it the prototype of a new social way of
production based on the possibility to interconnect craft workshops founded on
the common throughout the whole world, to treat software like a common good of
humanity, like the free software movement does, to replace the market with what
it is necessary to produce, how and to what purpose, to fabricate all that is
necessary locally and also to make large complex facilities through
collaboration with many local workshops. Transport, warehousing, marketing and
factory assembly, which represent two thirds of current costs, would be
eliminated. An economy beyond wage relation, money and commodities founded on
the pooling of the results of an activity conceived of from the beginning as
common, is heralded to be possible: an economy of gratuitousness. (Gorz, 2008,
118-119).

This utopian vision of Gorz's has many affinities with the experience of the
Transition Town Movement promoted by Rob Hopkins. The Transition Movement, as
Gauntlett (2011) emphasises, is formed of community initiatives that try to
transform society into resilient communities organised according to the maker
logic in order to face the environmental challenges tied to climate change,
limited resources and alterations in the world of work brought on by the
economic crisis. One of the main characteristics of the Transition Movement is
that of believing that all these problems can be faced through co-production
and community collaboration. It is no coincidence that the two fundamental
principles of the movement are:

a) individuals have immense quantities of creativity, talent and ability;

b) if individuals acted as a community they would be capable of creating a way
of life that is significatively more connected, more vibrant and more
fulfilling than the one we live in.

Even though it is more recent even the maker movement seems to be in turn
crossed, like the free software movement, by divergent tendencies on an
economic level and on that of political philosophy. The model of resilience and
autonomy incarnated by the radical makers community in California of whom Gorz
and Lallement are spokesmen, is opposed in this way by a logic of integration
in the large circuits of industrial production and commerce (Landeau, 2014) or
again approaches according to which the decentralised production of the makers
could come close to the realisation of a market of perfect competition (cf.
Anderson, 2012).

""

These and other good reads on this list put forward a deep, still forward
looking, view on what was, can be and is becoming yet another commons-based
movement in the age of a necrotizing capitalism. Yet all this thinkering
(nettime included!) seems to stay pretty much in the domain of the
intellectualoids, while the masses are shoved the zombie-rethoric of
californian ideology in every way possible, now even printed in
cheap-but-three-dee toxic plastic in the very premises of a university.
Ad maiora!

ciao

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

[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 will assume, in
 which existence is expected to assume no form. From my point of
 view, gardens of this kind should not be judged on account of their
 form, but, rather, on the basis of their capacity to generate and
 translate a certain joy of existence.â

   s

   On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Brian Holmes
   bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 early 20th century, then again in the
 50s-early 60s, then again in the late 80s-90s. However, the logic of
 exchange soon comes to bear, foreclosing those possibilities in
 favor of reconstituted mechanisms of profit and control, thus
 creating a kind of treadmill effect. Just when you think you are
 buiilding a new society, then you are not anymore.
 ...


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

[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 somali foodie as
well as the coffee lover dropout - the ycombinator based reactions tend to
use representationalism. ie it seems to me that the signifier point is
About something other than itself. Hence being a hacker/entrepuner/etc. is
talked of as being About other elements than what it is. ie the
entrepreneur's gentrified hacker is indeed to represent palatable ideas
and beliefs. They might as well called themselves tech-punks, geeks,
nerds, angel surfers, algo-explorers, or indeed toilette
cleaners..

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/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos/.
 ...


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

[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/livro/repair-culture/gambiarra commenting on how
we started back in the '90s with an idea of DIY recycling and we ended
up with a makers movement which is producing even more waste than the
industry was doing back then. What a Regretsy.

However. All the way while InI were realizing we were hackers (and that
there was a definition for us) it was always clear that we share a lot
with journalists and investigators, something that Julian Assange made
extremely evident at last. Hackers, journalists and investigators are
all liminal figures, as Yuri Lotman puts it, and with liminal I don't
mean to say we are necessarily marginal.

My question is then: how a liminal cultural role can survive the
gentrification? I believe there are differences from other gentrified
cultural movements because of the nature of such a role - and because of
the value that always lies beyond the well-known limits.

Back in 2004 and feeling strong while holding my toolbox I did went into
middle-east war zones to cross the limits and understand what's beyond
the propaganda machine. Other hackers today are still making the choice
to cross the border of a westernized semiosphere made of bore and hype.
For instance some are in Rojava as we speak, active organizing a support
network that can operate on the field, or have deleted all traces of
themselves and joined the Cooperativa Integral of Catalunya to reach
independence from capitalism.

This is all so difficult to communicate, in the middle of the
gentrification you describe, which is probably more evident in USA and
less in EU where the yuppie culture you mention is mostly an import.

So lets just keep in mind that the Hollywood machinery is -as always-
not the reality and that there are tribes of hackers that are explicitly
refusing  that route, whose choices are or may be in the future
different from what you describe. Of course there are plenty of former
activists turned yuppies, even among nettimers here, yet that doesn't
means that a cultural movement which is naturally incline to crossing
limits will be killed by gentrification. Even this hacker whose life
nowadays almost resembles that of a yuppie still manages to contribute
some critical sense at times :^)

For the gentrifying machine of hyped finance there will soon be a new
hype - oy vey I really can't wait for them to move on.

ciao

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

[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 Brett calls gentrification -- more traditionally, 
we call it recuperation -- and believe this is part of a series of 
processes of co-option that go much further than hacking. Indeed we 
describe recuperation of hacking in terms of social movement development 
and evolution of capitalism. You can download it here, please note it is 
just a draft!

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c86493g#page-5

A summary:

The spread of hacker practices to new fields, such as open hardware 
development and do-it-yourself biology, brings with it a renewed 
necessity to analyse the significance of hacking in relation to 
industrial and institutional innovation. We sketch out a framework 
drawing on the idea of recuperation and use it to situate an emerging 
body of works on hackers. By adopting the concept of recuperation, we 
highlight how hacker practices and innovations are adopted, adapted and 
repurposed by corporate and political institutions. In other words, 
hacking is being hacked. We suggest three temporalities within which 
this dynamics can be studied: 1) the life cycle of an individual hacker 
project-community, 2) the co-evolution of hacker movements and relevant 
industries or institutions, 3) the place of hacking within the ???spirit 
of the times???, or, differently put, the transformations of capitalism 
seen through the lens of hacking.

Ciao,
Alessandro


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.
 ...


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