when does a code monkey become a hacker

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jonathan coulton

code monkey

code monkey: a musical

calutron girls"We can train you how to do what is

needed, but cannot tell you what you are doing.  I can only tell you that if our enemies beat us to it,

God have mercy on us!"

Y-12 National Security ComplexCalutron Control Room in Beta 2

Building 9204-2

what are we?

consumer

with respect to 'life' in general, in its given situation?

we follow predictable ways in doing what we do. these arbitrary 'ways' shape our desire.

their predictability makes us vulnerable.

what are we?

consumer

with respect to this vulnerability and arbitraryness?

there are two ways out:-- you are unfree. free yourself

-- your ways don't make sense. oblige yourselfin fact, they work together

addiction

consumer

what is necessary?usefulness!

purpose!

addictoblige free

what do I want?success!activity!

user player

(usefulness in general)other uses?

other purposes?

(success in general)other activity?

success of others?

misuse selfishness

consumeraddictoblige free

user player

which usefulness?

a particular obligation

which activity?

a particular freedom

misuse selfishness

authority body

particular, with respect to... what? how?

consumeraddictoblige free

user player

grounds obligations

engenders freedom

misuse selfishness

authority bodyvolition system

grounds freedoms

engenders obligations

what are their alternatives?

consumeraddictoblige free

user playermisuse selfishness

authority bodyvolition system

conspirer fate

behind all bodies, there is a single volition

behind all authorities, there is a single system

consumeraddictoblige free

user playermisuse selfishness

authority bodyvolition system

conspirer fatehow does capitalism work?

by temporary matchings:authority =$= body

how does capitalism work?temporary matchings:authority =$= body

company =$= subcontractormanager =$= employee

client =$= productwork life =$= private life

husband =$= wifehuman =$= animal

government =$= civil societydeveloped country =$= developing country

how does capitalism fail?a matching is broken:authority =//= body volition system

1) change in system => authority lost=> new authorities are engendered by system

on volitive ground

2) change in volition => body lost=> new bodies are

engendered by volitionon systemic ground

why does capitalism work?

authority =$= body

because we want to measure things, and

numerical comparison

is the best representation we've found so far.

therefore,in capitalism,

numbers beat concepts.

how to change things?

distinguish volition and system.

target the ground.

in the face of a body,become volition, target system.

in the face of an authority,become system, target volition.

alfred sohn-rethelslavoj zizek

sigmund freud

jacques lacan

karl marx

thank you.