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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 6 months ago

education as a fetish

Hackers may lack an understanding of the different relationship workers have to education, and may fall for the elitist and hierarchical culture of education, which merely reinforces its scarcity and its economic value. The hacker may be duped by the blandishments of prestige and put virtuality in …

—p.56 A Hacker Manifesto Education (48) by McKenzie Wark
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education splits into a minimal system

[...] When capital discovers that main tasks can be performed by casual employees with little training, education splits into a minimal system meant to teach servility to the poorest workers and a competitive system offering the brightest workers a way up the slippery slope to security and consump…

—p.50 Education (48) by McKenzie Wark
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the privatization of information archive/dissertation

That the vectoralist class has replaced capital as the dominant exploiting class can be seen in the form that the leading corporations take. These firms divest themselves of their productive capacity, as this is no longer a source of power. They rely on a competing mass of capitalist contractors fo…

—p.32 Class (24) by McKenzie Wark
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the myth of scarcity inspo/anti-capitalism

The time is past due when hackers must come together with workers and farmers--with all of the producers of the world--to liberate productive and inventive resources from the myth of scarcity. The time is past due for new form of association to be created that can steer the world away from its dest…

—p.23 Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark
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an abstraction of nature

Abstraction is always an abstraction of nature, a process that creates nature's double, a second nature, a space of human existence in which collective life dwells among its own products and comes to take the environment it produces to be natural.

—p.16 Abstraction (1) by McKenzie Wark