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An Oral History of the L0pht
Article This series of articles is an oral history of one of the more influential hacker groups, the Boston-based hacker group,...
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A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots
Article In this article, Remer draws on the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil to argue that the modern world...
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Change the World, cDc Style
Video This video is from the DefCon 27 Conference and is a presentation by the hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow. This...
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Crypto
Book Chapter This book chapter is from Steven Levy's book "Crypto" which tells the stories of key figures behind cryptography and the cypherpunk movement. This...
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Cult of the Dead Cow
Book Chapter This book chapter from the recent book on the hacking group the Cult of the Dead Cow is about the Back Orifice...
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DEFCON - The Full Documentary
Video This video is a documentary of the DefCon hacker conference and hacking convention. From the video description, "A film about the world's...
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Excellence in opera or saving a life? Your choice.
Article In this article, Peter Singer questions where one ought to direct their charitable donations. For example, does donating to prevent...
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Existentialist Praxis Beyond Marxist Idealism, or: How Can Sartre Help Us Today?
Article In this blog post in Columbia Law's Critique, Ringleb argues that Sartre's notion of seriality, or the formation of in-groups based...
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Freedom Downtime
Video This video is the documentary from 2001 that is sympathetic to convicted computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick. It is produced by 2600...
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From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek
Article This article details the history of political hacking by Gabriella Coleman in which she provides an introduction and inventory of the...
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Hacker Activism of the Guacamaya
Video This video is by the international environmental hacking group known as the Guacamaya. The group has published anonymous reports and leaked sensitive files...
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Hacker Space Design Patterns
Lecture / slides This document is a set of slides from Jens Ohlig and Lars Weiler for the 24th Chaos Communication Congress about Building a...
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Hegel & Labour
Other In this talk by Paul Ashton, he lays out Hegel's view of labor and it application to today. Hegel, according...
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How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
Article In this article from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, the authors describe how despite Facebook's best efforts to promote true...
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How to find a meaningful job, or find purpose in the job you already have
Video From the video description: "Broaching the question 'What is my purpose?' is daunting – it's a grandiose idea, but research...
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Inventing Copyleft
Article This book chapter is from Christopher Kelty's book called "Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software" that details the history of Free...
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Kindness is Underrated
Article In this article, the author responds to Linus Tovalds’s tendency towards blunt, crass criticism with an argument for kindness. The...
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Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel developers
Article In this article, we see the interactions between the crass Linux creator Linus Torvalds and software developer Sarah Sharp. Sharp...
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Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'
Article In this article, Linus Torvalds admits that his interactions within the Linux developer community were rather strong while distancing himself...
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Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned
Video In this video, Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux and Git), defends abrasive comments he makes towards other codes (e.g. "you...
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Michael Sandel: 'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit'
Article In this article, Coman explains the views on meritocracy of Michael Sandel, one of the leading critics of free-market orthodoxy today....
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.nfo File
Digital Artifact This article describes a digital artifact known as the .nfo file extension which is a shortening of info or information. This...
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On Parenthood
Article In this article, prominent software developer Jeff Atwood describes his love of fatherhood and how parenthood has changed him for...
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On the Orders of Work (Excerpts from Aristotle's "Politics")
Philosophical Text In these excerpts from Aristotle's Politics, he explores the proper relationship between work, education, and government in a well-ordered society.
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Phrack Magazine - Issue 31
Article This article is an introduction to Issue 31 of the popular underground hacking publication of Phrack Magazine. This particular article details...
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Representing Hacker Culture: Reading Phrack
Book Chapter This book chapter from Douglas Thomas' book Hacker Culture details an outsider's guide to reading the hacker zine Phrack. This chapter discusses...
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Resistance to the current: the dialectics of hacking
Book Chapter This book chapter is titled "Internet Relay Chat: A Time Machine That Stood the Test of Time" and details the history...
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Stewardship of global collective behavior
Academic Paper Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate...
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The Government's Fight to Make Encryption Illegal
Video This video is the third-part of a four part documentary by ReasonTV titled "Cypherpunks Write Code". From the video description: In 1977,...
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The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld
Academic Paper This paper written by Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and expert on all things computer hacking, provides a new scholarly perspective on hacker conferences....
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The Hackerspace Movement
Video This video is a Ted Talk given by Mitch Altman, the inventor and creator of the TV-B-Gone technology and famous hardware hacker....
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The incredibly intricate badges of Def Con
Article This article details the creative badges created by hackers for their yearly hacking conference called DefCon. This article specifically details the...
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The New Workplace: Where Meaning And Purpose Are More Important Than Ever
Article In this article, business consultant Renelle Darr outlines the components needed for your work environment to feel meaningful for your...
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The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork
Video In this video, Bloomberg Quicktake tells the story of the rise and fall of WeWork, a commercial office leasing company...
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Unauthorized Access
Video This video is a documentary about hackers by Annalisa Savage from 1994. From the video description, "This is a nostalgic hacker documentary...
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Vita Activa and the Human Condition (Chapter 1)
Philosophical Text In the first chapter of her book The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt describes the "Vita Activa," or the active life...
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Watch Me Demo My New IRC Client on an 80s Retro Computer
Video This video is a video of a demo of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) on an 80s retro computer. The IRC is highly...
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Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker
Article This article in Data & Society is a discussion with Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman about the evolving culture around exploits development....
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What is a Hacker?
Video This video is produced by The Media Show and has Mitch Altman as a guest to answer the question: What is a...
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What Liberals Get Wrong About Work
Article In this article, Sandel argues that the American meritocratic mythos, lack of legal protections or recognition for manual laborers, and stagnated...
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Why the Open Code of Conduct Isn't For Me
Article In this article, the author shares his opinion on GitHub’s new Open Code of Conduct. Specifically, the author critiques the...
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WORK AND EMANCIPATORY PRACTICE: TOWARDS A RECOVERY OF HUMAN BEINGS’ PRODUCTIVE CAPACITIES
Other The abstract for this paper is as follows: This article argues that productive work represents a mode of human flourishing...