[JoPP-Public] issue #2 JoPP press release

Mon Jul 23 13:47:08 CEST 2012

Hi all

Congratulations to Johan and Alessandro for what looks like a really fantastic issue - I'm not just saying that, the articles all look really interesting; looking forward to reading them on the beach! ;-)cheers

Mathieu

ps. So I will do ACS, Historical Materialism... CITASA?

On 07/23/12, Johan Söderberg  <johan.soderberg at sts.gu.se> wrote:
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> Bio/Hardware Hacking”: a new special issue of the Journal of Peer
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> http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/(http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/)
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> During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with 
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> software and computers. This is changing with the surge of synthetic 
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> biology, fablabs and hackerspaces, all of which suggests the wider 
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> diffusion of hacking practices and hacker politics. Hardware development 
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> and biological science are about to be infused with the same kind of 
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> contestations and contradictions that already characterize software 
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> hacking. This is because hackers are not simply innovating new 
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> technology, but are at the same time discovering new ways of engaging 
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> with the world. The issue highlights how hacking practices are inscribed 
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> hackers find themselves, with implications for the ways hacker politics 
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> The special issue is curated by Alessandro Delfanti and Johan 
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> Söderberg. It includes four research papers and two invited comments:
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> Denisa Kera, Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science and 
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> Community with Open Data, Kits and Protocols
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> Maxigas, Hacklabs and Hackerspaces - Tracing Two Genealogies
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> Sara Tocchetti, DIYbiologists as ‘Makers’ of Personal Biologies: How 
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> MAKE Magazine and Maker Faires Contribute in Constituting Biology as a 
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> Personal Technology
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> Paolo Magaudda, How to make a “Hackintosh”. A Journey into the 
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> “Consumerization” of Hacking Practices and Culture
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> Morgan Meyer, Build Your Own Lab: Do-it-yourself Biology and the Rise 
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> of Citizen Biotech-Economies
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> Mitch Altman, Hacking at the Crossroad - US Military Funding of 
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> Hackerspaces
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> Feel free to tweet, blog, share, comment the content of this special 
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> issue. We hope it will be a good starting point for further studies of 
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> the spreading of hacking practices outside the software field.
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> Finally, we take advantage of this email to invite you to attend the 
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> panel we will chair, together with Eric Deibel, at the 4S/EASST 
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> Conference in Copenhagen in October. It is titled “Hacking STS - 
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> bio-hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces”, and will be 
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> another space to discuss the topics of this special issue.
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> Sincerely,
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> Alessandro and Johan
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Dr Mathieu O'Neil
Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University
email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php
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