Hacker Culture |
Contents
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Hacking as the Performance of Technology Reading the Hacker Manifesto | 47 |
Hacking in the 1990s | 81 |
Hacking Representation | 111 |
Representing Hacker Culture Reading Phrack | 115 |
Not Hackers Subculture Style and Media Incorporation | 141 |
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Page xii - Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
Page xx - Let us give the term genealogy to the union of erudite knowledge and local memories which allows us to establish a historical knowledge of struggles and to make use of this knowledge tactically today.
Page xxii - This positive commitment shows in a number of ways, not the least of which is the release of that personal initiative and creativity which constitute the basis of a democratic climate.