Hackers and Shamans - Travelers of the Black Box

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 22, 2018, 4 p.m. (60 minutes).

A session to critically analyze the figures of the hacker and the shaman, their ontological similarities and their journeys as travelers of their respective "black boxes" - the computational network in the case of the hacker and the human conscience in the case of the shaman. This talk will delineate modes of direct action that would allow us to think about hacking as a way to overcome ruling knowledge paradigms.

Presenters:

• danae valentina
  **danae valentina** (@tapia) is a Chilean working class feminist anarchist writer. She is an active member of the Riseup Collective and a postgraduate research student in comparative literature at Utrecht University. Her blog is at danae.noblogs.org/.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-hackers-and-shamans-travelers-of-the-black-box-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Hackers and Shamans - Travelers of the Black Box.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Hackers and Shamans - Travelers of the Black Box.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgkr1bk4dAs

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• DEF CON 22 (2014) / PoS Attacking the Traveling Salesman
• 31C3 (2014) / The Invisible Committee Returns with "Fuck Off Google": Cybernetics, Anti-Terrorism, and the ongoing case against the Tarnac 10
• Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017) / The Soul Travelers - Live Band!