Although, ironically, I can't imagine her views there would be that well received on HN.
It is fascinating that hacker and open source culture doesn't necessarily lead to materialist analyses of ownership and production. Makes me wonder, though, what other philosophies would such behavior prescribe?
Well, if you read something like the The Californian Ideology now, with our current ability at retrospection, you can pose that in the 90s and aughts, there was a widescale capture of the "hippie" hacker class (as the essay puts it) by capital, where businesses had to adjust there strategies to properly utilize the then desperately needed class of artisans. Silicon valley culture is the dialectical result of this endeavor.
Combine that with the simple (and I think understandable at the time) belief in a cyber-tinted technological determinism, along with billions of dollars worth of investors, and its easy to see what we have now: at best, full-tilt neoliberal rationalism, and at worst, libertarianism.
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It is fascinating that hacker and open source culture doesn't necessarily lead to materialist analyses of ownership and production. Makes me wonder, though, what other philosophies would such behavior prescribe?
Well, if you read something like the The Californian Ideology now, with our current ability at retrospection, you can pose that in the 90s and aughts, there was a widescale capture of the "hippie" hacker class (as the essay puts it) by capital, where businesses had to adjust there strategies to properly utilize the then desperately needed class of artisans. Silicon valley culture is the dialectical result of this endeavor.
Combine that with the simple (and I think understandable at the time) belief in a cyber-tinted technological determinism, along with billions of dollars worth of investors, and its easy to see what we have now: at best, full-tilt neoliberal rationalism, and at worst, libertarianism.
The Californian Ideology was written by Richard Barbrook, who subsequently wrote a book on Debords tabletop game _The Game of War_.
TIL!