Abstract Hacktivism

Igår lanserade Karl Palmås och Otto von Busch sin bok Abstract Hacktivism i Stockholm. Boken lanserar teorin att vi idag alltmer går bort från det industriella tänkandet om världen, ekonomin m m som en motor och istället ser på världen i ett digitalt perspektiv. Otto och Kalle presenterade boken för det 30-tal personer som dök upp på Nya kontoret på Birger Jarlsgatan. Kul diskussion, intellektuell battling på sjysst nivå med mycket humor.



Så här beskriver de själva bokens innehåll:

In recent years, designers, activists and businesspeople have started to navigate their social worlds on the basis of concepts derived from the world of computers and new media technologies. According to Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås, this represents a fundamental cultural shift. The conceptual models of modern social thought, as well as the ones emanating from the 1968 revolts, are being usurped by a new worldview.// The authors expand upon the idea that everyday technologies are profoundly interconnected with dominant modes of thought. In the nineteenth century, the motor replaced the clockwork as the universal model of knowledge. In a similar vain, new media technologies are currently replacing the motor as the dominant ‘conceptual technology’ of contemporary social thought. This development, von Busch and Palmås argue, has yielded new ways of construing politics, activism and innovation.
The authors embark on different routes to explore this shift. Otto von Busch relates the practice of hacking to phenomena such as shopdropping, craftivi
sm, fan fiction, liberation theology, and Spanish social movement YOMANGO. Karl Palmås examines how publications like Adbusters Magazine, as well as business theorists, have adopted a computer-inspired worldview, linking this development to the dot.com boom of the late 1990s.

Läs mer: http://www.isk-gbg.org/abstracthacktivism/

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