Representation-47.

The politics of information, of knowledge,
advances not through a critical negation of false
representations but a positive politics of the
virtuality of statement. The inexhaustible surplus
of statement is that aspect of information upon
which the class interest of hackers depends.
Hacking brings into existence the inexhaustible
multiplicity of all codes, be they natural or
social, programmed or poetic. But as it is the act
of hacking that composes, at one and the same time,
the hacker and the hack, hacking recognises no
artificial scarcity, no official licence, no
credentialing police force other than that composed
by the gift economy among hackers themselves.

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