kuda.lounge - presentation of the book: "A Hacker manifest" by McKenzie Wark

New Media Center_kuda.org in Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad

kuda.lounge program

Thursday, 23.03.2006, 19:00 h
Place: Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad, Dunavska 37


Presentation of the book: "A Hacker manifest" by McKenzie Wark

participants in talk:
McKenzie Wark - author, New School University, NewYork
Petar Milat, Multimedia Institute, Zagreb

McKenzie Wark is coming to Novi Sad to present his book "A Hacker 
manifesto" in Croatian language published by Multimedia institute from 
Zagreb. Besides Novi Sad, Wark will visit Ljubljana, Zagreb and 
Belgrade.

"A Hacker manifesto" reconstructs political-economical thought of Marx 
in the context of information age, with the influence of Guy Debord and 
Gilles Delueze.


McKenzie Wark about the book:

"Information wants to be free, but is everywhere in chains. The new 
digital technologies reveal for the first time the real ontological 
weirdness of information. It can escape from scarcity. My possession of 
it deprives no other of it. At least, things have developed to the 
point where there is something than can truly be held in common. And 
yet information is increasingly subject to extraordinary legal and 
technical constraints. So called DRMs --"digital rights management" - 
or more properly "digital restrictions management" threatens to choke 
off this new world of free information, and restrict it to the property 
of a few corporations. Meanwhile drug companies and global agribusiness 
is rapidly turning nature into private property, through the instrument 
of the patent. And while manufacturing is spreading into the so-called 
underdeveloped world, the production and distribution cycle is more and 
more controlled by a limited family of brands, also in the hands of a 
handful of corporations. But against this en
chaining of information to the commodity form, a popular counter 
movement has arisen which challenges this restriction on the very being 
of information. This movement gives rise to a new activist figure - the 
hacker - the one who works with information but does not own or control 
it. It is time to make manifest the aims and ambitions, the desires and 
dreams, of this class who would stand on the side of a free information 
order - the hacker class."

McKenzie Wark is Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Lang 
College, New School University. He is the author of several books, most 
recently Dispositions and A Hacker Manifesto.


20.03. Zagreb, net.culture - mama
21.03. Ljubljana, Kiberpipa
23.03. Novi Sad, Museum of contemporary art
24.03. Beograd, Cultural center REX


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