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A double is haunting the world—the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world—for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data. A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their. | r ARD Click on titles or jacket images to get more information about a title or to order online. NEW A Hacker Manifesto MCKENZIE WARK A double is haunting the world the double of abstraction the virtual reality of information programming or poetry math or music curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins purpose and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world for producing the new concepts new perceptions and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data. A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground the realm of so-called intellectual property gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict one that pits the creators of information the hacker class of researchers and authors artists and biologists chemists and musicians philosophers and programmers against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces. Ours is once again an age of manifestos. Wark s book challenges the new regime of property relations with all the epigrammatic vitality conceptual innovation and revolutionary enthusiasm of the great manifestos. Michael Hardt co-author of Empire A Hacker Manifesto is a highly original and provocative book. At a moment in history where we are starved of new political ideas and directions the clarity with which Wark identifies a new political class is persuasive and his ability to articulate their interests is remarkable. Marcus Boon author of The Road of Excess McKenzie Wark s A Hacker Manifesto might also be called without too much violence to its argument The Communist Manifesto . In essence it s an attempt to update the core of Marxist theory for that relatively novel set of historical circumstances