Hacking in the University: Contesting the Valorisation of Academic Labour

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique

Joss Winn¹ 

[1] University of Lincoln;

关键词: hacking;    hackers;    academic labour;    valorisation;    history of science;    Marxism;    historical-materialism;   

DOI  :  10.31269/triplec.v11i2.494

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this article I argue for a different way of understanding the emergence of hacker culture. In doing so, I outline an account of ‘the university’ as an institution that provided the material and subsequent intellectual conditions that early hackers were drawn to and in which they worked. I argue that hacking was originally a form of academic labour that emerged out of the intensification and valorisation of scientific research within the institutional context of the university. The reproduction of hacking as a form of academic labour took place over many decades as academics and their institutions shifted from an ideal of unproductive, communal science to a more productive, entrepreneurial approach to the production of knowledge.  A such, I view hacking as a peculiar, historically situated form of labour that arose out of the contradictions of the academy: vocation vs. profession; teaching vs. research; basic vs. applied research; research vs. development; private vs. public; war vs. peace; institutional autonomy vs. state dependence; scientific communalism vs. intellectual property.

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