title: Partisans go cyber: The hacker ethic and partisans’ legacy
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metadata.value: Dudchik, Andrei Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-08-23T21:33:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-08-23T21:33:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Dudchik А. Partisans go cyber: The hacker ethic and partisans’ legacy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 2, pp. 322–339. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.209
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43859
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the role of hackers and hacktivists in modern hybrid conflicts, in particular
  the ‘localization’ patterns of hackerism, by focusing on the case of the Belarusian hacker
  group Cyber Partisans. The study shows the significance of the partisan movement for modern
  Belarusian identity and historical memory and discusses the attempts of appropriation
  of this topic by various political actors. The comparison between hacktivism and partisan
  warfare holds a certain heuristic potential, making it possible to build conceptual categories
  for the analysis of the hacktivists’ practices and their ethical norms. Parallels may be drawn
  between the hackers and partisans (along with more common analogies with the pirates and
  ‘social bandits’) to gain a better understanding of the historical and ideological roots of the
  hacker movement in the ethical sphere. One of the most famous interpretations of the concept
  partisan belongs to the German jurist and political theorist Carl Schmitt, whose approach accentuates
  the partisan’s connection with the local territory (the telluric nature of the partisan).
  An interesting way to compare the hacker and partisan ethic is to look at both of them from
  the game-related perspective. For example, the situations described in the ‘partisan’ literature
  have much in common with the prisoner’s dilemma — a popular game theory paradox. These
  situations of moral choice foster a particular kind of subjectivity which is closely entwined
  with keeping true and remaining loyal, a subjectivity that is apt to handle certain information
  with discretion and care. The study explores the heuristic potential of the concept nomos for
  the analysis of the partisan ethic and hacker ethic. The proposed concept nomos of the swamp
  develops Karl Schmitt’s ideas and can be applied to reveal the specifics of the partisan activity
  in Belarus and to analyze partisanship in connection to the historical and modern forms of
  ‘partisan’ hacktivism.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research is supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 20-18-00240).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hacker
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hacktivist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: partisan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cyberpartisan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hacker’s ethic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: partisan ethic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belarus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Partisans go cyber: The hacker ethic and partisans’ legacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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