"When Technocultures Collide" provides rich and diverse studies
of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures
and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine.
The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks,
urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, "CrackBerry"
users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, chess
geeks, and a range of losers and tinkerers feature prominently in
this volume. Gary Genosko analyzes these practices for their
remarkable diversity and their innovation and leaps of imagination.
He assesses the results of a number of operations, including the
Canadian stories of Mafiaboy, Jeff Chapman of Infiltration, and
BlackBerry users.
The author provides critical accounts of understudied
technological detours, such as the prospects of deterritorialized
computer mice and big-toe computing, the role of electrical grid
hacks in urban technopolitics, and whether info addiction and
depression contribute to tactical resistance. The goal of this work
is to look beyond means of resistance to find examples of
technocultural autonomy in the minor and marginal cultural
productions of underground groups, ethico-poetic diversions, and
sustainable withdrawals with genuine therapeutic potential to
surpass accumulation, debt, and competition. The dangers and joys
of these struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of the
BlackBerry and Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website.
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