Punks, Pranks,

Freaks and
Geeks

BCM301 Week 10
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by quietaction
by schosc
Subcultures

Hackers

‘Free’ Beer
(sub)culture/counterculture

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 by TheFunkyHorror
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by meowth23's photo diary

Thornton, Sarah. 1996. Club Cultures: Music, Media and

Subcultural Capital. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Pres
 by Francis Storr
Jensen, Sune Qvotrup (2006), ‘Rethinking
subcultural capital’ Young, vol.14, pp.257 “ 276.
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 Situationism
Culture Jamming
detournement

by G A R N E T
 Culture
Jamming

Culture Jamming is a cultural or

semiotic hack, one that
embodies Umberto Eco's notion
of ‚semiological guerrillas‛.,
drawing attention to corporate
discourses and commodification by mmechtley
.
by WilWheaton
Hackers On Planet Earth Six
by ioerror
 - Richard Stallman, hacker, political activist and software freedom
fighter.

‚ ... hacking means

exploring the limits of

what is possible, in a spirit

of playful cleverness.‛
 Hacking

by PixelManiatiK
by oskay

Hardware hacking modifies functionality. The value of

the hack is regarded in terms of its simplicity and
innovation. Software hackers compose or change code to
alter the outcomes of the operation of a system.
Hackers
participation
innovation

by Joi

by mil8
Richard Stallman
a political activist,
software freedom fighter
and prominent hacker.

by D'Arcy Norman

by Dunechaser
 Free as in Free
Beer
libre/unfettered
Free Software:

The freedom to run the program for any

purpose. by AGoK

The freedom to study how the program

works, and adapt it.
the freedom to access the source code.
The freedom to redistribute software to
help your neighbour.

The freedom to improve the program and

release the improvement to the public.
 Hacktivism
The Hacker Class (MacKenzie Wark)
subcultural capital

“Hacking to thwart
the commodification
and state control of
information.”
Jordan and Taylor,
(2004: 18)‫‏‬
Free as in Free
Software
GNU’s Not minux
by Melvind
 Hello everybody out there using minix - I’n

doing a (free) operating system (just a

Just for Fun hobby, won’t be big and professional like

gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been

Linus Torvalds brewing since april and its starting to get

ready. I’d like any feedback on things

people like/dislike in minix, as my OS

resembles it somewhat (same physical

layout of the file-system (due to practical

reasons) among other things... (Torvalds &

Diamond, 2002: 85).

by Dunechaser
 User Contributors

“given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. Eric Raym