Week 7 — Vectors VS. Borders

Vectors and Borders. A vector is the means of achieving either the temporal distribution of a stock, or the spatial distribution of a flow of information. A border is the barrier of access to information. It relates to secret policies and the drone war. Vector is to promote access and border is to prevent access.

Globalisation is a product of the evolution of capitalism. I agree to McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto. The vectoral class comes into its own once it is possession of powerful technologies for vectoralising information. The vectoral class may commodify information stocks, flows, or vectors themselves. A stock of information is an archive, a body of information maintained through time that has enduring value. Everything becomes digitalised. Software controls lots of things that supposed controlled by us; the global economy, missiles and logistics.

Although vector is a flow of information, however, there are information do not want the public know. For example, secret policies, political and military related documents in the country. Therefore, there is a hacker culture going on. A hacker is the one who experiments with technology. They breaks the rules and to innovate. They help the public to know the secrets ‘behind the scenes’.

Since the flow of information is too powerful, in some countries, the governments rather to set borders to prevent their people to get access to information from the first place. For example, China. The Chinese people are going through the Great Firewall of China. Sensitive or negative political related information are not allowed to show from the search engines. It is included websites and social websites that not going to follow its country regulations of information. Will people stop access to their wanted information because of this Great Firewall of China? No, not at all! I think vectors still win borders a little bit.