SUBCORE

  • Social Engineering, Social Ethics — Human manipulation as research topic, not handbook.
  • The Archive of Hacks — Documenting historic hacks as cultural artifacts.
  • Counter-Surveillance Arts — Installations that make watching visible.
  • Civic Hacking Case Studies — Projects that built useful public tools without leaving harm.
  • Device Stewardship — How to maintain long-lived hardware against planned obsolescence.
  • OpSec Mindsets — Principles for personal security without tactical instruction.
  • Jargon & Ritual — Language that binds hacker communities.
  • From Phreaks to Hackers — Generational shifts in underground telecom culture.
  • Plastic Cards & The System — Tracing the materiality of payment networks.
  • Anonymity Personas — The sociology of enduring pseudonyms and reputations.
  • Surveillance Mapping — How to read a city’s sensor topology (theory, not steps).
  • Ghost Networks — Mesh, meshless and offline comms for dissident communities.