e-flux Journal #146 June 2024 - A Hacker Manifesto at Twenty

Contributors to e-flux Journal #146 revisit McKenzie Wark's *A Hacker Manifesto* twenty years after its publication, arguing that its ideas still bear on present conditions. The texts claim that flows now dominate, that "vectors have won," and that capital is the highest form of nomadism. Valérian Guillier asks whether a theory of information forged decades ago still applies, given the apparent victory of "free" content and software. The issue also includes A Hacked Manifesto, a net art tool by which users can manipulate Wark's text, and states that whatever is built next must be distributed, low cost, accessible, verifiable, and low in power use.