Comments on: Hackers Ship Software Before They Put On Pants http://blog.kushwaha.com/2005/10/12/a-new-book-to-read/ Things from, of and about the head on the shoulders. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Paul http://blog.kushwaha.com/2005/10/12/a-new-book-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-3045 Paul Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:05:12 +0000 http://blog.kushwaha.com/2005/10/12/a-new-book-to-read/#comment-3045 > I must be the only artist in the world who advocates > defacing his own work Talk about blowing your own trumpet - Another artform where people advocate defacing their own work can be found in music. HipHop and its sampling history, for example. In writing, Bryon Gysin's cut-up technique, as used by William Burroughs, is another - let's cut-up Burroughs. A further example would be Raymond Queneau's '100, 000, 000, 000, 000 Poems'. Not to mention whether software can actually be classed as art. If that is the case, he's just one amongst the thousands of other Free Software hackers. > I must be the only artist in the world who advocates
> defacing his own work

Talk about blowing your own trumpet – Another artform where people advocate defacing their own work can be found in music. HipHop and its sampling history, for example. In writing, Bryon Gysin’s cut-up technique, as used by William Burroughs, is another – let’s cut-up Burroughs. A further example would be Raymond Queneau’s ‘100, 000, 000, 000, 000 Poems’.

Not to mention whether software can actually be classed as art. If that is the case, he’s just one amongst the thousands of other Free Software hackers.

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