Exhibition23 Aug – 16 Nov 2024
This Hideous Replica
Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’…
A Hacker Manifesto at 20: A reading group with McKenzie Wark
Writer, theorist, and raver McKenzie Wark leads a reading and discussion group on her influential text, A Hacker Manifesto, 20 years after its publication by Harvard University Press in 2004.
As a group, we will revisit Wark’s prescient theorisation of the emancipatory and subversive potential of the ‘hacker class’, the logics of information capitalism, and the political possibilities of algorithmic production. We will discuss what has changed and what hasn’t since the book was written, and the ongoing relevance of the hacker as a political and cultural agent.
PDF’s of the manifesto available on request. Check out eflux 146 in preparation.
Presented with ADM+S and non/fictionLab
RMIT Media Portal Room
Corner of Swanston Street and Franklin Street (Building 14, street level, next to Little Bang cafe).
This program is a part of Replica School. A replica of a school, a school of replication. A hideous school foregrounding replication. An expanded program of performances, talks, workshops, screenings and other uncanny encounters taking place at RMIT and various venues in Melbourne.
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