Hacker Manifesto

"Hacking" can be applied to almost any form of information. Language, math, music, shapes, colors, shaped and reshaped to introduce new, if not entirely desirable things to the world. Hackers are everywhere, a new class, programmers, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, all 'hacking' their way into this abstract subculture. They take different and seemingly unrelated material and reconstruct it on a plane where these two things can relate and combine. By the definition of McKenzie Wark, to hack "is to produce or apply the abstract to information and express the possibility of new worlds." Since information cannot exist in unaltered, immaterial form, it is necessary to find the material means to extract and distribute this information. The universal goal of hackers is to free this information from its material constraints. Production, and the production class, or vectoralist class, plays an important role in hacking, simultaneously aiding as well as trying to obstruct the hackers goal. I definitely agree with alot of aspects of this article, information should be readily available, and its availability in several different forms works to expand our minds and knowledge as a culture. Though this 'at your fingertips' information should not discourage you from getting out into the world, experiencing things and gaining knowledge for yourself.