https://www.felixtreguer.fr/en/categories/new-left/ Recent content in New Left on Félix Tréguer Hugo en-US Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:03:10 +0000 https://www.felixtreguer.fr/2021/07/les-hacktivistes-heritiers-de-la-nouvelle-gauche/ Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:03:10 +0000 https://www.felixtreguer.fr/2021/07/les-hacktivistes-heritiers-de-la-nouvelle-gauche/ <p>The issue of Quaderni journal dedicated to hacking has just been published. In it, I published an article on hacker action repertoires and their connection to the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://cis.cnrs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/quaderni-103.jpg" alt="" /></figure> </div> <p>Here is the abstract:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p> After recalling the connection between the pioneers of hacker activism and the anti-technocratic tactics employed by the New Left, this article proposes to interpret the wave of repression that hit hackers in the late 1980s as one of the power strategies designed to end the crisis of governmentality that began in the 1960s — a strategy that has since been reactivated whenever a “hacker front” has seemed on the verge of reconstituting itself. In doing so, it invites us to see this episode of securing cyberspace and repressing transgressive repertoires of action as a critical moment in the genealogy of authoritarian liberalism. </p>