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Some HN reaction reminds me of... "Hackers come to struggle against the particular forms in which abstraction is commodified and turned into the private proper

Some HN reaction reminds me of... "Hackers come to struggle against the particular forms in which abstraction is commodified and turned into the private property of the vectoralist class." [A Hacker Manifesto, McKenzie Wark, 022] Big five representatives of the vectorialist class are Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple.

tostr 8y ago
Not very much on topic, but is the book worth reading? I started a couple of times but always kinda tuned out at some point.
- smartmic 8y ago
  It is not an easy, pleasurable read, maybe too intellectual. But it is worth for the truth and insight it provides.
  - tostr 8y ago
    Thanks for the input! Will give it another try.
oculusthrift 8y ago
feel like if any of the other companies made this acquisition less people would care. It’s just trendy and good for your hacker creds to oppose microsoft as people did in the 90s. No one is crying about AWS hosting all applications.