Q. I wish the hacker culture connection to anarchism was more thorough and consistent. It looks a lot more like privileged fuckery and pet insurrections. It could be that the academic scene wasn’t representative of the movement as a whole
A. I would largely ignore the existing academic history of anachronism and tech as it is extreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism
In my view a good place to start a project like this would be look though the indymedia email archives for a “original” anarchist workflow. I would not take much notice of the “official” history’s of indymedia as they are full of academic wank. The theoretical analysis of the time is all pushing agenders that ripped the project apart and killed it – these are interesting to see this process but less useful as exacting history of what actually happened. The who internal process is saved in open email lists now hosted on archive.org no other anarchist project is this well documented.
Best not to add to the activist “mannerism” in our history if we are to have hope for “anarchism” fluffy and spiky playing a role in saving a humane/ecological world.
