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Heart Don’t Panic! Hack it!

In Case You Meet Hackers for the First Time …

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It seems appropriate that the Ars Electronica, whose overarching motto this year is “InfoWar”, would host a “Hackertreff” (Hackers’ meeting) as part of the Festival. The time is right: hackers are back. And since the Information Age is said to have an electronic frontier, it should also have its cowboys (or Indians!). But the Information Age, so superbly deconstructed by Manuel Castells in his eponymous trilogy, means many different things to many different people, and especially many different groups of -to use that new-fangled word — “stakeholders”. And so, not always to their or our advantage, do hackers.

This was a motto of the Galactic Hackers’ Party, Amsterdam August 1989.

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  • Das beste Buch zum Thema Hacker bleibt auch in den späten neunziger Jahren ein Klassiker aus der Mitte der achtziger Jahre: Hackers von Steven Levy. Seine Analysen des „ Hacker-Ethos“ und des „ Hands-on-lmperartivs“ sind unübertroffen.

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  • Wenn Sie sich für aktuelle Informationen und solide politische Analysen interessieren, sehen Sie auf der Web-Site von „ 2600“, The HackersQuarterly (www.2600.com) nach. Oder, noch besser, entscheiden Sie sich für ein Abonnement (für Bewohner der ehemaligen „ Ostblockstaaten“ kostenlos!).

  • Die besten Texte zur „ Open Source”-Ideology stammen von Eric S. Raymond und sind unter folgender Adresse zu finden: <http/fearthspace.net/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/index.html> bzw. unter <http//sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading.txt>

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Gerfried Stocker Christine Schöpf

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Riemens, P. (1998). Heart Don’t Panic! Hack it!. In: Stocker, G., Schöpf, C. (eds) Ars Electronica 98. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38430-5_6

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