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| | village voice > books > McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto by Hua Hsu |
 | | Type hello to the nascent "hacker class," McKenzie Wark's loose confederation of fixers, file sharers, inventors, shut-ins, philosophers, programmers, and pirates—"Geeks and freaks," he cracks in a rare show of levity. |
 | | The manifesto is a fascinating genre that usually mainlines passion at the cost of clarity, but Wark suffers the opposite problem. |
 | | His hackers care less about the means of production than the ideas spurring that production, so he assigns ultimate blame to the "vectoralist class" intent on controlling, then commodifying, hacked information. |
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