Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Hack License (01 Feb 2005) Wark’s opus A Hacker Manifesto brings together England’s Enclosure Movement, Das Kapital, and the corporate ownership of information—a process that Duke University law professor James Boyle called “the Second Enclosure Movement”—to create a unified theory of domination, struggle, and freedom. Hacking is not a product of the computer age, writes Wark, but an ancient rite in which abstractions are created and information is transformed. The very creation of private property was a hack, he argues—a legal hack—and like many other hacks, once this abstraction was created, it was taken over by the ruling class and used as a tool of subjugation. Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/review_hack.asp Read 224 more articles from Technology Review Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: How to pitch an idea     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy