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A Hacker Manifesto defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called 'intellectual property,' gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information - the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers - against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces. Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyperspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons. (Book jacket)

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Copyright, Copyleft, Copygift McKenzie Wark , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , March vol. 69 no. 1 2010; (p. 73-78)
The Double of Abstraction Owen Richardson , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 268 2005; (p. 47)

— Review of A Hacker Manifesto McKenzie Wark , 2004 single work criticism
The Digital Age Throws Up Questions of Equity John Conomos , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 November 2004; (p. 11)

— Review of A Hacker Manifesto McKenzie Wark , 2004 single work criticism
The Digital Age Throws Up Questions of Equity John Conomos , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 November 2004; (p. 11)

— Review of A Hacker Manifesto McKenzie Wark , 2004 single work criticism
The Double of Abstraction Owen Richardson , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 268 2005; (p. 47)

— Review of A Hacker Manifesto McKenzie Wark , 2004 single work criticism
Copyright, Copyleft, Copygift McKenzie Wark , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , March vol. 69 no. 1 2010; (p. 73-78)
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