How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences

In Code Work, H�ctor Beltr�n examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltr�n shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions―at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in M�xico and the United States―during which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences―to unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural M�xico to Silicon Valley.

Beltr�n chronicles the tension between the transformative promise of hacking―the idea that coding will reconfigure the boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and gender―and the reality of a neoliberal capitalist economy divided and structured by the US/M�xico border. Young hackers, many of whom approach coding in a spirit of playfulness and exploration, are encouraged to appropriate the discourses of flexibility and self-management even as they remain outside formal employment. Beltr�n explores the ways that “innovative culture” is seen as central in curing M�xico’s social ills, showing that when innovation is linked to technological development, other kinds of development are neglected. Beltr�n’s highly original, wide-ranging analysis uniquely connects technology studies, the anthropology of capitalism, and Latinx and Latin American studies.

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H�ctor Beltr�n is assistant professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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