Hackers

This is a threat. Thats how Hackers, Swedish writer Aase Bergs seventh book of poetry, begins. Hackers is a furious, feminist book about wanting to hack the patriarchal systemboth in the physically violent sense and in the sense of computer hacking. But Berg also reveals the hag behind the hack, channeling the non-compliant rage of Glenn-Close-as-bunny-boiler from Fatal Attraction. The world Berg hags back at is a world of sexist, capitalist, environmental, globalized violence. The fury of the hacker/hag/captive/revenger is constantly boiling up on the edges of Bergs compounds and highways, threatening to infiltrate the center. In these spectacular battle scenes and hacked pastorals, where nature is besieged by the highways of progress and the animals dont give a damn about the humans, the hag rises.