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The Conservative Hacker

by mgunes on 9/9/15, 7:12 AM with 1 comments

  • by hugh4 on 9/9/15, 7:42 AM

    > The hacker label is, as Foucault might say, a “dubious unity.”

    There's no such thing as "a unity". That doesn't make sense, perhaps you've translated poorly from the French?

    > The single phrase can barely contain its constituent multitude.

    You seem to be having problems with singular vs plural here.

    > Are hackers fundamentally conservative if not in intention, then in deed?

    That doesn't seem like a sensible question.

    > Such a question requires a working definition of hackers

    True. It also, more importantly, requires a working definition of "conservative", and this seems to be missing.

    I shan't bother to go on.