Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

Knowledge too has to be released from scarcity. and hierarchy. Forcing
people to submit to. years of mental enslavement all their childhood.
and young adult life just to secure a reasonable. standard of living is a
status quo that needs to be. challenged.. Roy With information as
commodity and. mediacommunication as. architecture where should the
hacker seek to. gainmaintain power andor control. Ken Firstly its a
question of realizing that all. intellectual creators are 'hackers'. It is
about. realizing a common interest that has nothing to do. with choices
of identity culture or taste. A class. interest in short.. Secondly its about
realizing that our class interest. confronts another what I call the
vectoralist class.. The vectoralist class controls the means of realizing.
the value of what we create. They control the. vectors along which new
information moves. A. broadcasting network is a vector but so too is a.
drug company. New information could be in the. form of a digital file
or a little pink pill. The form. doesn't matter. What does is that the class
interest. of the vectoralists lies in making ideas a form of. exclusive
perpetual and global private property.. Thirdly it's a matter of tactics.
One can mount legal. challenges to the. enclosure of information in
ever more restrictive. intellectual property law. One can mount
political. challenges in uniting the various branches of the. hacker class.
Or one can mount a cultural challenge. by showing that the interests of
the public are not. served by the exclusive control of information by a.
handful of corporations. And of course there is the. technological
strategy of creating new tools for. sharing information freely. But really
its a question. of getting all of these tactics to work together to. create a
strategy perhaps even an alternative. logistics in which information is
free.. Roy While reading 'Virtual Geography' I couldn't. help but feel a
weird sense of amnesia. I. remembered all of the media events therein
but. only as vague blips on the radar. How do we. interject the idea of
memory into the. mediasphere. Ken As Guy Debord used to argue the
triumph of. the spectacle is in the defeat of history and the. installation
of 'spectacular time' which is purely. cyclical. We no longer have
history we have. fashion. Of course history always crashes the. party
but it appears as something inexplicable. The. nightmare of video
footage on endless replay. defying explanation. The temptation in
media criticism especially in. America is to claim a. higher access to
truth. All media is false but one's. personal experience of identity is
somehow. authentic. Politics is atomized into subjective feeling. and
turned into a species of moral judgment. This. creates that peculiarly
American pseudoleftist. language that is really about moral authority a
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