"The academy is approaching a new integration with revolutionary new technology . . . . We are seeing two highly complex systems—computer technology and the academy, one complex by nature, and one deeply complex by force of history —colliding and hybridizing.."
Why hack?
General connotations: Doing something to a formal or official system or practice or entity by informal means. To steal. To manipulate. To avoid. To go around. To subvert.
Other meanings: To joke. To code. To create. To innovate.
A "hacker ethos" in the academy means "learning about and improving highly complex systems by playful innovation."
"Hackers are autodidacts. . . . a hacker is a person who looks at systemic knowledge structures and learns about them from making or doing. They teach themselves and one another because they are at the bleeding edge of knowledge about that system."
"The hacker ethos, in the end, might save us—or at least prolong the life of the academy as we know it."
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Tad Suiter
Why "Hacking"?
From Hacking the Academy
Daniel J. Cohen & Tom Scheinfeldt, eds.
“Banner image from “DeepMind:Fusion: The illustration depicts how AI helps to control plasma instability with so much ease and mastery that it appears as if its is playing a musical instrument.” Artist: Khyati Trehan” @ Unsplash
