A Hacker Manifesto at 20: A reading group with McKenzie Wark

Writer, theorist, and raver McKenzie Wark leads a reading and discussion group on her influential text, A Hacker Manifesto, 20 years after its publication by Harvard University Press in 2004. 

As a group, we will revisit Wark’s prescient theorisation of the emancipatory and subversive potential of the 'hacker class', the logics of information capitalism, and the political possibilities of algorithmic production. We will discuss what has changed and what hasn’t since the book was written, and the ongoing relevance of the hacker as a political and cultural agent. 

PDF’s of the manifesto available on request. Check out eflux 146 in preparation. 

Presented with ADM+S and non/fictionLab 

This program is a part of Replica School. A replica of a school, a school of replication. A hideous school foregrounding replication. An expanded program of performances, talks, workshops, screenings and other uncanny encounters taking place at RMIT and various venues in Melbourne.