{"product_id":"common-circuits-hacking-alternative-technological-futures-hardback-9781503640603","title":"Common Circuits; Hacking Alternative Technological Futures (Hardback) 9781503640603","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommon Circuits\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHacking Alternative Technological Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuis Felipe R. Murillo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503640603, Stanford University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages, 4 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.409 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Original and timely, \u003ci\u003eCommon Circuits\u003c\/i\u003e makes visible alternatives to the mainstream, neoliberal tech industry, spotlighting how hackerspaces are organized around knowledge exchange, friendship, and mutual aid. With a nuanced assessment of hacker politics, Murillo brings into focus fascinating and overlooked facets of computing cultures and history.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Gabriella Coleman, Harvard University \"In paired chapters on places and people—\u003ci\u003emulti-locale pilgrimage sites\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003epersonal trajectories as social hieroglyphs\u003c\/i\u003e—Murillo introduces us to the significance of hacker spaces, including Noisebridge in San Francisco, Chaihuo in Shenzhen, and Tokyo Hacker Space. They are driven, respectively, to create: radical open communities; networks of gift-commodity-gift exchange; and pro-data neutrality of open science collecting and visualizing. Murillo's beautifully written book provides important material for thinking about how to open rather than close the creative commons, and the history of the global circuits and fluorescence of hacker and maker spaces.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of \"big tech\" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley \"big tech\" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, \u003ci\u003eCommon Circuits\u003c\/i\u003e explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker collectives prefigure more just technological futures through community projects? Luis Felipe R. Murillo responds to these urgent questions with an analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial, shared technologies. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough rich explorations of hacker space histories and biographical sketches of hackers who participate in them, Murillo describes the social and technical conditions that allowed for the creation of community projects such as anonymity and privacy networks to counter mass surveillance; community-made monitoring devices to measure radioactive contamination; and small-scale open hardware fabrication for the purposes of technological autonomy. Murillo shows how hacker collectives point us toward brighter technological futures—a renewal of the \"digital commons\"—where computing projects are constantly being repurposed for the common good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Circuits in Common\u003cbr\u003e  1. Noisebridge: An Experiment in Radical Openness\u003cbr\u003e  2. Altman: Yearning for Community\u003cbr\u003e  3. Chaihuo: Between Gifts and Commodities\u003cbr\u003e  4. NalaGinrut: Hacking as Spiritual Calling\u003cbr\u003e  5. Tokyo Hacker Space: Bricoleurs Respond to the Disaster\u003cbr\u003e  6. Gniibe: Hacking to Do No Harm\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Are Hackerspaces Prefiguring Technopolitical Alternatives?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610711191832,"sku":"9781503640603","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/common-circuits-hacking-alternative-technological-futures-hardback-9781503640603","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}