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when does a code monkey become a hacker. Işık Barış Fidaner. jonathan coulton. code monkey. code monkey: a musical. calutron girls.
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when does a code monkey become a hacker Işık Barış Fidaner
calutron girls "We can train you how to do what is needed, but cannot tell you what you are doing. I can only tell you that if our enemies beat us to it, God have mercy on us!" Y-12 National Security Complex Calutron Control Room in Beta 2 Building 9204-2
what are we? consumer with respect to 'life' in general, in its given situation? we follow predictable ways in doing what we do. these arbitrary 'ways' shape our desire. their predictability makes us vulnerable.
what are we? consumer addiction with respect to this vulnerability and arbitraryness? there are two ways out: -- you are unfree. free yourself -- your ways don't make sense. oblige yourself in fact, they work together
consumer addict oblige free what is necessary? what do I want? success! activity! usefulness! purpose! player user misuse selfishness (usefulness in general) other uses? other purposes? (success in general) other activity? success of others?
consumer addict oblige free user player misuse selfishness body authority which activity? a particular freedom which usefulness? a particular obligation particular, with respect to... what? how?
consumer addict oblige free user player misuse selfishness body authority system volition grounds obligations engenders freedom grounds freedoms engenders obligations what are their alternatives?
consumer addict oblige free user player misuse selfishness body authority system volition fate conspirer behind all bodies, there is a single volition behind all authorities, there is a single system
consumer addict oblige free user player misuse selfishness body authority system volition fate conspirer how does capitalism work? by temporary matchings: authority =$= body
how does capitalism work? temporary matchings: authority =$= body company =$= subcontractor manager =$= employee client =$= product work life =$= private life husband =$= wife human =$= animal government =$= civil society developed country =$= developing country
how does capitalism fail? a matching is broken: authority =//= body volition system 1) change in system => authority lost => new authorities are engendered by system on volitive ground 2) change in volition => body lost => new bodies are engendered by volition on systemic ground
why does capitalism work? authority =$= body because we want to measure things, and numerical comparison is the best representation we've found so far. therefore, in capitalism, numbers beat concepts.
how to change things? distinguish volition and system. target the ground. in the face of a body, become volition, target system. in the face of an authority, become system, target volition.
slavoj zizek alfred sohn-rethel jacques lacan karl marx sigmund freud