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a scarcity of scarcity archive/dissertation

The vectoralist class discovers--irony of ironies!--a scarcity of scarcity. It struggles to find new "business models" for information, but ends up settling for its only reliable means of extracting a surplus from its artificial scarcity, through the formation of monopolies over every branch of its…

—p.312 A Hacker Manifesto Surplus (300) by McKenzie Wark
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information can escape the commodity form archive/dissertation

What may be free from the commodity form altogether is not land, not capital, but information. All other forms of property are exclusive. The ownership by one excludes, by definition, the ownership by another. The class relation may be mitigated, but not overcome. The vectoralist class sees in the …

—p.253 Revolt (233) by McKenzie Wark
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so long as there is a past, there is a future

New circumstances call for new theories, and new practices, but also for the cultivation of variants, alternatives, mutant strains. The revolts of 1989 may have flourished and withered, but are a seed stock for future movements. So long as there is a past, there is a future; so long as there is mem…

—p.243 Revolt (233) by McKenzie Wark
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ruling classes have no need for representation

And always, what escapes effective counter in this imaginary, enlightened state is the power of the ruling classes, which have no need for representation which dominate through owning and controlling production, including the production of representation. What calls to be hacked is not the represen…

—p.221 Representation (207) by McKenzie Wark
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the gift economy archive/dissertation

The vetoralist class contributes, unwittingly, to the development of the vectoral world within which the gift as the limit to property could return, but soon recognizes its error. As the vectoral economy, develops, less and less of it takes the form of a public space of open and free gift exchange,…

—p.206 Property (176) by McKenzie Wark