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Weitere BilderSprache: Englisch
Verlag: San Francisco, 1982
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
- Magazin / Zeitschrift
Anbieter: NOISE MATTERs Books, New York, NY, USANOISE MATTERs Books
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Launched San Francisco in 1981, Processed World was a radical underground Anti-technology magazine created by office workers who turned their frustration with the rise of technology & automation into sharp critique and biting satire. Now recognized as a seminal docume…nt 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. Mixing labor activism, cultural commentary, & subversive humor, the zine exposed the dehumanizing effects of computerization, surveillance, and temporary office work—what its founders called the absurdities of "wage slavery." Over 32 print issues (1981-1994), Processed World chronicled the lives of clerks, temps, data-entry workers, & programmers navigating an increasingly mechanized workplace. Its "byte-back" ethos included playful sabotage & underground distribution, positioning the zine within broader anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian movements. With its ironic humor, DIY aesthetic, and generational critique, the magazine feels unmistakably like a product of Gen-X, capturing the attitudes and anxieties of a cohort coming of age in a world of cubicles and computers.
