ABSTRACT

Cities have long become interspaces, entangled in materialities and virtual worlds. However, as urban automation advances in cities increasingly made ‘smarter’, everyday processes are often controlled by oppressive standards hardcoded into technologies. Publicly neutralized as ‘objective’, corporately owned algorithmic architectures now function as urban gatekeepers. They determine social participation, possibilities of space appropriation on- and offline, and access to (social) infrastructures. Following five months of qualitative research on hacking and other tech-practices by German-speaking cyberfeminist collectives in 2021, my paper portrays their refusal of black-boxed, profitable, and biased technologies of classification. I argue that feminist hackspaces are important urban co-creators in digitized cities to come. They offer infrastructures to increase access to interfaces, (cyber-)spaces, and decision-making processes by sharing their tech-knowledge and tools. Their activism demonstrates how (urban) hacking is a crucial practice to break with non-democratically controlled digitalization processes: in favour of a city for all.

摘要

城市早已成为交织在物质世界和虚拟世界中的空间。然而，随着城市自动化的进步，城市变得越来越“智能”，日常流程往往受到硬编码到技术中的压迫性标准的控制。公开中立为“客观”的企业算法架构现在充当城市看门人的角色。它们决定了社会参与、线上和线下空间占用的可能性以及对（社会）基础设施的访问。在对 2021 年德语网络女权主义团体进行的黑客攻击和其他技术实践进行了五个月的定性研究之后，我的论文描绘了他们对黑匣子、有利可图和有偏见的分类技术的拒绝。我认为女权主义黑客空间是未来数字化城市中重要的城市共同创造者。他们提供基础设施，通过共享技术知识和工具来增加对接口、（网络）空间和决策过程的访问。他们的行动表明，（城市）黑客攻击是打破非民主控制的数字化进程的重要做法：有利于所有人的城市。