Infrastructural action in Vietnam: Inverting the techno-politics of hacking in the global South
Infrastructural action in Vietnam: Inverting the techno-politics of hacking in the global South
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越南的基础设施行动：扭转全球南方的黑客技术政治
作者：
Lilly U. Nguyen
本文介绍了基础设施行动的概念，并认为它是一个有用的分析工具，以了解黑客在全球南部。非结构性行动包括人们在沿着全球现代性的边缘时建立社会技术联系的微妙方式。在越南，黑客活动是在全球商品的非法流通中进行的。这些流通构成了向该国秘密进口“手提”货物的普遍基础设施。在这些循环中，黑客行为包含了一种闯入全球技术文化的策略，而不是突破社会技术限制。通过将黑客行为置于全球一体化中距离的更大困境中，这种基础设施行动的概念可以作为对全球北方黑客话语中典型的技术政治道德的批判。
This article introduces the concept of infrastructural action and argues that it serves as a useful analytical tool to understand hacking in the global South. Infrastructural action consists of the delicate ways in which people establish socio-technical connections when located along the margins of global modernity. In Vietnam, hacking is situated within the illicit circulations of global commodities. These circulations form pervasive infrastructures for clandestine importation of “hand-carried” goods into the country. Embedded within these circulations, hacking consists of a strategy for breaking into global techno-culture rather than breaking out of socio-technical limitations. By contextualizing hacking within the larger dilemmas of distance within global integration, this notion of infrastructural action serves as a critique of the techno-political ethos of transgression typical of hacking discourses in the global North.