Think of reverse engineering, modding and the mashup as the concretized ‘capture’ of experience/knowledge in the patterns of information. And yet, these patterns are not ossified like discourse, ideology, or commodities. You might call them articulations (or assemblages) that are destined for further elaboration and unravelling. Wark combines a Deleuzian and Marxist approaches to these themes in his Hacker Manifesto.
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