Wang Hui's book, China's New Order, which is
available in English from Harvard University Press, and is an excellent
account of the fallout from the student/democracy movement of 1987 and
Chinese political/intellectual life today.
McKenzie Wark
New York Times
Week in R
Eugene asks about Georgio Agamben. Below is a short note on him. I find
his writings on the state les interesting and useful than his return to
the question of commodity fetishism, which is a refreshing revisiting of a
neglected concept. On the state, his approach seems more philological than
hist
Paul is a long time nettimer, so here's
my take on his new book -- Ken
>From Glocks to Canons
McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A review of:
Paul D Miller
aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Rhythm Science
MIT Press, 2004
http://mitpress.mit.edu/
St Columba wanted the text of the
Matze asks:
> > Rip, mix, play: Information leaks and escapes from the boundaries of the
> > object.
>
>the boundaries of the object? what could that be?
I see information as having an abstract relation to materiality.
Information does not exist without a material form, but it has no
necessary re
All That is Solid Melts into Airwaves
Theory and Event Vol. 9 No. 2 2006
Deborah Halbert
http://muse.jhu.edu.libproxy.newschool.edu/journ
als/tae/v009/9.2halbert.html#top
McKenzie Wark. A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2004. pp.196. $21.95 (hc).
ISBN 0674015436
nd meanings the rest of us take for
granted. If we hackers-of words, computers, sound, science,
etc.-organize into a working, sociopolitical class, Wark argues,
then the world can be ours.
--Hua Hsu, Village Voice
For more information on the book:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.h
-- from the uncorrected page proofs.
For the book, see:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
A Hacker Manifesto 001-006
McKenzie Wark
001.A double spooks the world, the
double of abstraction. The fortunes
of states and armies, companies and
communities depend on it. All
contending
ip and control of all
information in its hands? In the extract below, i
try to develop a way of grappling with this
--k
A Hacker Manifesto
McKenzie Wark
Harvard University Press
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
007.Everywhere abstraction reigns,
abstraction made concrete.
Eve
By Steven Shaviro
The Pinoccio Theory
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/
October 21, 2004
A Hacker Manifesto
McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto is a remarkable and beautiful book:
cogent, radical, and exhilarating, a politico- aesthetic call to arms for
the digital age.
The book really is, as it
A Hacker Manifesto
by McKenzie Wark Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Harvard University Press,
2004, Paper: ISBN 0-674-01543-6
(Price $21.95) pp. 208.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
Reviewed by Kyle Bjornlund
Journal of High Technology Law
Suffolk University Law School
http
McKenzie Wark
Harvard UP, 208pp, $Aust48.95 (hb)
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
McKenzie Wark's aptly named and timely A
Hacker Manifesto is a remarkably original and
passionate clarion call to question the
increasing commodification of information in
our digital age. The bo
FM Interviews: McKenzie Wark [extract]
First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/wark/index.html
McKenzie Wark teaches media and
cultural studies at the New School
University in New York City. His most
recent book is A Hacker Manifesto
(Harvard University Press, 2004). For
many
Securing Security
[Presented at Transmediale 05 http://www.transmediale.de]
McKenzie Wark
http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
1. How one forgets. What was the ideology
for which allies supposedly fought in world
war two? Who remembers the four
freedoms
Indestructible Life
A review of:
Bernadette Corporation, Reena Spaulings,
Semiotext(e), New York, 2005
http://www.mitpress.com
by McKenzie Wark
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html
http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark
Both Reena Spaulings the novel, and
Reena Spaulings the character in that
I found Brian's paper very interesting. Here are a few thoughts:
Gift exchange and commodity exchange seem to me to be mutually
implicated in each other. No commodity system exists without the
gift. Economic doctrine treats the commodity system as 'pure' when
a good deal of the production of use v
Bruce Sterling, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next
Fifty Years, Random House, New York, 2002
Reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bruce Sterling has been an intermittent presence on
Nettime almost since the beginning. He might have called
Nettimers "goofy leftists", and
Surreal torture in modern art cells
January 28 2003
A Spanish art historian has uncovered what was alleged to be the first use
of modern art as a deliberate form of torture, with the discovery that
mind-bending prison cells were built by anarchist artists 65 years ago
during the country's blo
Bohos in Purgatory
Andrew Ross, No Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden
Costs, Basic Books, New York, 2003
Reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The bourgeois and the bohemian stand in a dialectical relation to
each other. The bohemian's revolt is purely relational.
Escape from the Dual Empire
McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
15.
What confronts the world now is a dual empire,
not a unitary empire. The military-industrial complex
of the cold war era has been replaced, not by a
juridical empire of global law and trade, but by a new
duality, a mi
To the Vector the Spoils
McKenzie Wark interviewed by Roy Christopher
from frontwheeldrive.com
http://frontwheeldrive.com/mckenzie_wark.html
Roy Christopher: Let's get our terms aligned first:
How do you define the term 'hacker'? Do you
include artists, software develope
Mr Pocock confuses two relatively separate things, but it seems to me
he makes an excellent point under each heading anyway.
1. why not boycott the media product of the United States and its allies
at this point in time? One might argue that the arts community is mostly
against the war. But a boyc
This story is an almost perfect, self-critiquing example of the
convergence of bourgeois rationality and ideologies of nature.
We are all hard wired to be used car dealers, it seems. -- K
New York Times. February 27, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/business/27SCEN.html
Looking Inside th
The Untied States
McKenzie Wark
The vectoralization of power produces a split in the powers of empire.
Empire is not unitary. It is a dual power. On the one hand, the vectoral
class has its (neo)liberal wing. It is committed to the accelerated
vectoralization of world trade, and the consolidation
What can one say about Blonchot? Nowhere are
the difficulties of communication, the impossibility
of community, more thoroughly present -- and
confronted -- than in his writings.
Ken Wark
Radical Politics and the Writer
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)
By NORMAN MADARASZ
http://www.counterpunch.org/
>From: human being <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Would you please further define these 'vectorial' statements,
>as each is a very big statement, and I must have missed the
>post where all of this was reasoned as a common empiricism.
>If you would begin with a solid (physical) definition of vector,
>that wo
Dear Human Being,
thankyou for taking the trouble to read and think.
I will only respond briefly, for I think many of your speculations are
not really addressed to me, but to yourself, to your own future
thinking.
This point I think is crucial, and I have only formulated it this way
recently:
ctacle of the
Gulf war in the first place. Many of the things conveyed
in what George Gerbner calls the media's 'instant history'
of the war were distortions or outright lies. Quite a few
people know that now. How do we know? Through other
media. More slow and considered media, li
As William Gibson famously said, "the street
finds its own use for things." I find this
story interesting on so many levels. Tactics
for the underdeveloped world, the irony of
Linux and Microsoft coming together, the
inevitable tightening of the screws of IP
that will no doubt ensue...
Some Xbox
Luther Blissett, Q, William Heinemann, 2003
reviewed by McKenzie Wark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Q is a terrific read, an epic from "the bowels
of history."(517) The story follows two main
characters. One wants to overthrow the
social order. The other is a spy in the service
of the fo
Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder,
Semiotext(e), New York, 2002
Reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alain Joxe, a prominent French expert in international studies, offers a
timely alternative to both a micropolitics or a politics of the
multitudes. Empire of Disorder offers a resta
Thanks to Brian for his comments. I can't really speak for Alain
Joxe, but in the main his book seems to address the mainstream
centre-left political spectrum. In his view there is something to
be said for state or para-state organizations (the EU for example)
which can offer some protection to tho
What is living and what is dead in liberalism? (Neo or otherwise).
What is living and what is dead in leftism? (new or old style)
These are good 'Hegelian' questions, and while as Brian says,
they have been raised on nettime before, the discussion was
far from comprehensive or conclusive.
I don't
Douglass describes the state as a 'strange attractor', and I think that's
an apt image for it, if you think about it as a center. Or, you can think
of it from the edges, as an envelope, a semi-permeable membrane that
maintains some consistency in its internal space -- at the price of
exporting tur
Richard writes that
>Passing laws is not the same thing as making people obey them. The DCMA or
>the EU Copyright Directive haven't stopped the sharing of information among
>Net users.
Just as privatising land and the means of production did not stop cattle
rustling or hijacking trucks of cigaret
As Are reminds us, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is no joke, and
there is already a criminal proceeding. Heiko points out that there are
'traditional exceptions' in the WIPO treaties. I would say these reveal
a kind of 'class compromise', which in any case may be made moot
by developments in
Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion,
Autonomedia, New York, 2002
Reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian canola (or rapeseed)
farmer who was sued by Monsanto, the St Louis
based agribusiness giant, for infringing on its
patents. Monsanto owns
Bhopal Critics in Web Hoax Against Dow Chemical
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/technology/09DOW.html
Last Tuesday, on the 18th anniversary of the lethal gas spill at a Union
Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands of people,
journalists receive
both 'sides' need to look to
what in their own rhetorical strategies inhibit
such a productive discourse. Or perhaps we need
an ethics of discourse that frees itself from the
dialectic -- that method th
Many thanks to Brian, Doug Felix and Kermit for thoughtful posts
and a spirit of free and multiple inquiry.
As Brian notes, I haven't said much about the money-form, largely
because I think that what significant about money is not the
abstraction of the general equivalent but the materialities of
Dear Coco,
I quite agree that the "solution involves learning about racism and how it
is expressed in your culture, your words, your theories and your attitudes."
And I have certainly learned a lot from your posts on the subject, and from
your writings elsewhere. I also agree that the "insist
Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist,
Netocracy: The New Power Elite and Life After Capitalism,
Reuters, London, 2002
reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wouldn't usually give a second look to yet
another book plopping off the business press
about the 'new economy'
Konrad Becker, Tactical Reality Dictionary:
Cultural Intelligence and Social Control,
edition selene, Vienna, 2002
(distributed by Autonomedia)
Reviewed by McKenzie Wark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Konrad Becker -- a contributor to nettime since
its earliest incarnations, offers this remarkable
n and property meet. To the extent that there is
life in hip hop as a cultural movement, it works to deepen the
exploration of the double burden of racism and commodification
in the vectoral era.
McKenzie Wark
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