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

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

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 
life-span: 'radical' anti-parental (reactionary) youth; fist-shaking, 
caffeine-drinking, reproductive middle age; passive old age. There are few 
exceptions that transcend, at the same time as being embraced by, the normative.

jh

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