Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking Soderberg Johan
How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation.In Resistance to the Current, Johan Sderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and…
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How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation.In Resistance to the Current, Johan Sderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and their role in shaping the twenty-first-century's network society. Based on decades of field work and analysis, this intervention into current debates situates an exploding variety of hacking practices within the contradictions of capitalism. Depoliticized accounts of computing cultures and collaborative production miss their core driver, write Sderberg and Maxigas: the articulation of critique and its recuperation into innovations.Drawing on accounts of building, developing, and running community wireless networks, 3D printers, hackerspaces, and chat protocols, the authors develop a theoretical framework of critique and recuperation to examine how hackers--who have