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'''* Article: Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Genealogies. by Maxigas. Special issue (#2) of the Journal of Peer Production on Bio/Hardware Hacking, 2012.''' | '''* Article: Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Genealogies. by Maxigas. Special issue (#2) of the Journal of Peer Production on Bio/Hardware Hacking, 2012.''' | ||
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* Article: Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Genealogies. by Maxigas. Special issue (#2) of the Journal of Peer Production on Bio/Hardware Hacking, 2012.
URL = http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/
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"The second contribution to this special issue, Hacklabs and Hackerspaces: Tracing Two Genealogies, draws similar conclusions from a historical case study. Maxigas describes a fork between hacklabs and hackerspaces over the question of what role politics should play in hacker practices. Hacklabs predated hackerspaces and provided the inspirational source for the latter. This origin has largely been erased from public view, and, sometimes, from the collective memory of the practitioners as well. Hacklabs were often set up in squatted buildings organised by anarchists and autonomists. Subsequently, the hackers frequenting hacklabs came to inherit a more overt and confrontational understanding of politics than the one typically upheld by those who participate in hackerspaces."