SUBCORE

  • Signal Sculpture — Artistic works that intercept, transform or reflect communication.
  • Community Trust Models — How groups verify new members without central IDs.
  • Red Team Stories — Ethical penetration testers recount ethical dilemmas (no techniques).
  • Malware as Metaphor — Cultural meanings assigned to malicious code.
  • Phreaker Memoirs — First-person accounts from phone-network explorers.
  • Legal Gray Zones — How laws shape underground tech practice (global comparative).
  • Dumpster Diving as Research — Material culture insights from discarded hardware.
  • Radio for the People — Low-power broadcasting and its political lineage.
  • 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.