Resistance to the Current
The Dialectics of Hacking
$60.52
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2023
Summary
In Resistance to the Current, Johan Söderberg and Maxigas examine four historical case studies of hacker movements and their roles 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 Söderberg and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544566 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262544563 |
| Author: | Johan Soderberg, Maxigas Maxigas |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Information Policy |
About The Author
Johan Soderberg
Johan S derberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of G teborg and Associate Editor of Science as Culture. He researches the development of alternative addiction treatments and the hacking of medicine.
Maxigas is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Amsterdam. His research on hacking, cybernetics, and old social media has been published in academic journals including the Social Studies of Science and the Internet Policy Review.
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