Since #37C3 is confirmed ( https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/index.en.html ), I'm thinking about submitting a talk about the narratives hackers choose to describe themselves. Let me know what you think about these titles:
1. Hackers' narratives on themselves and why they are important
2. How cyberpunk stories can hurt hackers and their communities
3. The death of a Cyberpunk hacker - the birth of a Solarpunk one
4. Cyberpunk is Deprecated. We need a new language
It may be worth mentioning that Gibson himself was not trying to paint the "hard and shiny" hacker culture as a cool thing. He talked about this in an interview around the time The Peripheral came out. I *think* it's this one, but it's paywalled so I'm not sure.
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson
Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model city set in the dish of the North Shore Mountains, which enclose the city and support, most days, a thick canopy of fog. There are periods in the year when it’ll rain for forty days, William Gibs...
@suetanvil I event mention that in my last talk from HOPE :)
I think it just became aestheticized. The problem here is that a lot of hackers and hacker communities embraced this aestheticization without understanding the consequences.
Well, he made us nerds cool, so it's kind of understandable.
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