Desde esta perspectiva lo que ocupa los territorios es una ontología particular, la de los individuos, el conocimiento experto, los mercados y la economía. Este es el mundo despiadado del 1 % (o, digamos, del 10 %) denunciado por los movimientos Occupy Wall Street e Indignados, recientemente, y por los movimientos alter-globalización por ya casi dos décadas; este mundo es impuesto sobre el 90 % y sobre el mundo natural con creciente virulencia, cinismo e ilegalidad ya que más que nunca lo ‘legal’ solo alberga un conjunto de reglas egoístas que imperializa los deseos de los poderosos. Las reglas y prácticas de este mundo van desde la Organización Mundial del Comercio y la invasión armada de países por fuerzas de ocupación militar-ontológica, con la aquiescencia de la llamada ‘comunidad internacional’, hasta la actual ocupación policial de barrios pobres de minorías étnicas en Estados Unidos, como el caso de Ferguson (Missouri).

For these women, the values and practices of everyday life intertwine with technical labor. In the 1970s, theorists like Dick Hebdige, Henri LeFebvre, and Michel DeCertau took up everyday life as a site for radically re-imagining social life. The potency of domesticity and the social status of quotidian craftwork became a key precursor to contemporary Feminist thought. Today, it has reemerged in the work of modern-day hackers.By designing hackerspaces to serve domestic and familial needs, and by surfacing a new emotional style through failure, members of women-operated hackerspaces are

By framing the work of women-operated hackerspace members as vital forms of hacking, they embraced the counterculture, but not the one most prevalent on the playa at Burning Man, home of the San Francisco Bay Area digerati. They instead embraced a personal counterculture, one based on their own family narratives—resurrecting a phrase widely celebrated within the 1970s Feminist movement: “the personal is political.”

a HackerMoms member remarked, “when you avoid using the word ‘hacker’ you lend credence to hack-ing being a negative thing; by using it, you begin claiming the word as your own and reworking it.” This logic of appropriation calls to mind Smith’s initial purpose for assum-ing the hacking category: underscoring connections between hacking and women’s work

At HackerMoms, many members like Renz used craft techniques to create objects and “hack” physical craft materials. From the perspective of those who saw HackerMoms as “anti-hackerspace,” celebrating craft and art making without computation rendered the concept of hacking ambiguous and insig-nificant. This concern often resonated with engineers and scientists like Renz’s husband, a physicist, who confessed to her he did not consider her work hacking (Interview with Daniela Rosner, 18 April, 2013).

Contesting refers to the creation of crowdsourced data or prototypes for not yet existent uses for data. It is similar to modeling but with an oppositional rather than persuasive tone.