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There are many definitions of hacker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto Wark defines hacking 'as
by Kinnard 12y ago
There are many definitions of hacker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto
Wark defines hacking 'as an “abstraction”, the construction of different and unrelated matters into previously unrealized relations. Hackers produce new conceptions, perceptions and sensations hacked out of raw data. Everything and anything is a code for the hacker to hack, be it “programming, language, poetic language, math, or music, curves or colourings” [3] and once hacked, they create the possibility for new things to enter the world. What they create is not necessarily “great”, or “even good”, but new, in the areas of culture, art, science, and philosophy or “in any production of knowledge where data can be extracted from it.”
Wark argues that (new) information comes from the hack. It doesn’t matter if you are a computer programmer, a philosopher, a teacher, a musician, a physicist, if you essentially produce new information - it’s a hack [1]. In this sense, hackers are creators and they bring new ideas into the world. The aim of the book is to highlight the origins, purpose and efforts by this emerging hacker class, who produce new; concepts, perceptions, and sensations out of the stuff of raw data.'
- jiggy2011 12y agoI've literally never heard a musician , mathematician or engineer refer to themselves as a "hacker" or anyone outside of computing for that matter.
- Kinnard 12y agoYou will soon. This itself is a hack ;)
- Kinnard 12y agoSee: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech/innovation/music-hackers-unleash-instruments/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech/innovation/music-hackers-...
- AnimalMuppet 12y agoA jazz musician might easily fit the definition of a hacker, but still might be more likely to describe him/herself as "a cat who can blow".
- daveloyall 12y agoNeither have I, but I find myself recognizing hacker traits in musicians, mathematicians, lawyers, chefs, spangers, legislators, tech recruiters, modern bohemians, and grant writers. These are all people that reason about systems. The systems and the tools vary, but the process doesn't.
- jiggy2011 12y agoBut is it reasonable to term it "hacking", there's a certain arrogance in trying to apply one's own wording in a way that suggests a particular type of person (a particular type of programmer) as the ideal.
- daveloyall 12y agoWhen lawyers start coming up to us and saying "I see what you did there!", let's ask them what they call it. :) Meanwhile... Actually, the closest term I've come across personally is "systems thinking". (A phrase with its own splendid, storied history, by the way!)