{"id":75,"date":"2005-02-09T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2005-02-09T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T14:41:01","slug":"little_red_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/09\/little_red_book\/","title":{"rendered":"little red book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/05\/03\/issue\/review_hack.asp?trk=nl\">review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/subsol.c3.hu\/subsol_2\/contributors0\/warkbio.html\">McKenzie Wark<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0674015436\/qid=1107969046\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-6925317-9484146?v=glance&#038;s=books\"><i>A Hacker Manifesto<\/i><\/a>, recently published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog\/WARHAC.html\">Harvard University Press<\/a>. In the manifesto (<a href=\"http:\/\/subsol.c3.hu\/subsol_2\/contributors0\/warktext.html\">shorter version<\/a>), Wark outlines a class struggle over &#8220;vectors&#8221; &#8211; the information channels of a society. In his words:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0674015436.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/0674015436.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" width=\"37\" height=\"60\" align=\"left\"\/> <i>&#8220;With the commodification of information comes its vectoralisation. Extracting a surplus from information requires technologies capable of transporting information through space, but also through time. The archive is a vector through time just as communication is a vector that crosses space. The vectoral class comes into its own once it is in possession of powerful technologies for vectoralising information.&#8211;The vectoral class may commodify information stocks, flows, or vectors themselves. A stock of information is an archive, a body of information maintained through time that has enduring value. A flow of information is the capacity to extract information of temporary value out of events and to distribute it widely and quickly. A vector is the means of achieving either the temporal distribution of a stock, or the spatial distribution of a flow of information. Vectoral power is generally sought through the ownership of all three aspects.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting review of McKenzie Wark&#8216;s A Hacker Manifesto, recently published by Harvard University Press. In the manifesto (shorter version), Wark outlines a class struggle over &#8220;vectors&#8221; &#8211; the information channels of a society. In his words: &#8220;With the commodification of information comes its vectoralisation. Extracting a surplus from information requires technologies capable of transporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-and-copyleft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}