Hacking-38.

The very nature of the hack gives the hacker a
crisis of identity. The hacker searches for a
representation of what it is to be a hacker in the
identities of other classes. Some see themselves as
vectoralists, trading on the scarcity of their
property. Some see themselves as workers, but as
privileged ones in a hierarchy of wage earners. The
hacker class has produces itself as itself, but not
for itself. It does not (yet) possess a
consciousness of its consciousness. It is not aware
of its own virtuality. It has to distinguish between
its competitive interest in the hack, and its
collective interest in discovering a relation among
hackers that expresses an open and ongoing future.

[[38]]

p037 _ -chap- _ toc-1 _ p038w _ toc-2 _ +chap+ _ p039

v?