Processed World Issue #8, Power of Knowledge Against Power, Summer 1983.

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Chris Carlsson ,Caitlin Manning, San Francisco, 1983

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Offset-printed zine Approx. 4,000 copies Processed World No. 8 continues the magazine's early 1980s critique of office labor, information technology, and capitalist work culture through a blend of satire, reportage, fiction, poetry, and reader correspondence. Produced collectively, this issue reflects the publication's growing audience and increasing editorial ambition following the success of earlier numbers. The issue opens with editorial commentary and letters from readers, foregrounding dialogue around workplace alienation, race, and class within white-collar environments. Creative contributions include short fiction and poetry addressing emotional labor, boredom, desire, and resistance within clerical and administrative work. Notable literary pieces include "Bad Girl" by Shirley Garzotto, fiction and poetry by Zoe Noe, and short fiction by Steve Abbott. Political and analytical articles examine labor organization and technological change, including "Blue Shield and the Union: A Post-Mortem" by Debra Wittley, which critiques union dynamics within professional office settings, and "World Processing: Technology & Instability" by Tom Athanasiou, analyzing the destabilizing effects of emerging information technologies on work and social structures. Launched in San Francisco in 1981, by Chris Carisson, Caitlin Manning and Adam Cornford, Processed World was a radical magazine created by office workers who turned their frustration with the rise of automation into sharp critique and biting satire. Mixing labor activism, cultural commentary, and subversive humor, the publication exposed the dehumanizing effects of computerization, surveillance, and temporary office work- what its founders called the absurdities of "wage slavery." The publication operated as a non-hierarchical collective, with design and layout evolving collaboratively over time. Visual identity and graphic experimentation were shaped by rotating designers and artists, including Pauline Paranoia and Bonita Thoreson, alongside numerous cartoonists and illustrators drawn from underground comics and activist art scenes. This collective production model was central to Processed World’s political ethos and distinctive visual style. Over 32 print issues (1981-1994), plus later digital editions, Processed World chronicled the lives of clerks, temps, data-entry workers, and programmers navigating an increasingly mechanized workplace. Its "byte-back" ethos included playful sabotage and underground distribution, positioning the zine within broader anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian movements. Now recognized as a seminal document of late-20th-century labor resistance, Processed World captured the voices of the overlooked workforce at the dawn of the computer age- workers who fought back with wit, rebellion, and radical imagination.…

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Titolo
Processed World Issue #8, Power of Knowledge Against Power, Summer 1983.
Autore
Chris Carlsson, Caitlin Manning
Editore
Chris Carlsson ,Caitlin Manning, San Francisco
Anno di pubblicazione
1983
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