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Processed World Is a Project of the Bay Area Salvador Ferret, Center for Art & Technology, a California Non- Denim Dada, Klipschutz, Rachel D kUDHLD , urn ^'v,fl. \ ^ ' ^ ;v Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/processedworld2627proc NENU War Heads Introduction and editorials by Med-o, Bean, Zoe Noe, Prinnitivo Morales Arsumince & Fax lO From our readers Not OUI" Owns Demystifying Goals and Methods of "Progressive Work" II Analytical Tale of Toil by Steven Colatrella Progressive Pretensions Tale of Toil by Kwazee Wabbitt Adventures In The Aaah! HIP Capitalists! 14 Huck-lt Research fiction by Chris Carlsson Game 41 Ambivalent Nemories of "Fiction" by Art Tinnitus Virtual Community A Trade Reporter's Analytical Tale of Toil by G.S. Williamson Report 46 There Goes The Tale of Toil by Frank Wilde Neishborhoodt It Post-Nodern Pensees 49 Tale of Toil by Glenn Caley Bachmann Poetry by Paula Orlando Beatnik Nanagersy Tye-Dye Kelly Girrs Good Job 50 Corporate Bureaucrats, and Tale of Toil by Kelly Girl All-Purpose Tofu Paste 16 51 Tale of Toil by Robert Ovetz DOWNTINE9. VDT update, Disney Revolution?, Poll Tax Revolt, & More! Iff I Die Beffore Lessons In Democracy SS I Wake 19 Poetry by Adam Cornford Fiction by Jim Lough From The Grey Ranks: Poetry 40 Graffiti in War & Peace in Poland 56 Conant, Harter, King, Bergamino, Interview with Tomasz Sikorski by D.S. Black Lazzara, Michele C, Miller, West Art & Chaos in Brazil 61 Interview with Ze Carratu Harvey Pekar .65 Article by klipschutz Reviews < .70 Frog, Morales, Black, Carlsson Texas: Penury off Plenty. .75 Tale of Texan Toil by Salvador Ferret CONTRIBUTORS/Writers: Front Cover by Angela Bocage Michael Botkin, Frog, Bean, Glenn Back Cover by Trixie T-Square Caley Bachmann, Chris Carlsson, D.S. Black, Ellen K., Louis Michael- son, Primitive Morales, Nell Miller, Processed World is a project of the Bay Area Salvador Ferret, Center for Art & Technology, a California non- Denim Dada, klipschutz, Rachel D. Chaz profit, tax-exempt corporation. BACAT can be Med-o, written to at 1095 Market Street, Suite 209, San Bufe, Jay Stone Francisco. CA 94103, USA or phoned at (415) Graphics: Trixie T-Square, J.R.S., V.T. Voss, Chris Carlsson, Angela 626-2979, or faxed at (415) 626-2685. or E-mailed Know-lt-AII, Louis at pwmag^well.sf.ca.usa Bocage, Zoe Michaelson. Paula Pieretty, Rick Gerhar- Joven. Rachel J. harter. Kit Miller, Chaz Bufe, Tom Tomorrow, James Carman, IB. Nelson. E. Tumbaie. Doug Minkler, and many others. PROCESSED WORLD 10/17 The contents of this magazine 1991 eflect the ideas and fantasies of Summer Processed World is collectively the specific authors and artists, and ISSN 0735-9381 produced & edited: only the printer lot necessarily other contributors, 41 Sutter Street #1829 and the post office get paid. editors, or BACAT. San Francisco . CA 94104. USA begin to flesh out something of what Heads we're fighting for. War On the other hand, good jobs also satisfy needs of the ruling order. Often they "buy off' the most creative, moti- vated, and potentially subversive indi- viduals. When we find ourselves in a special double issue marks Processed World's "good" niche, our organizing, agitation, This and politically dissident energies tend 10th anniversary, a milestone nobody envisioned to migrate away from our own imme- at the beginning, or even halfway along! This diate circumstances, reinforcing a broader political disengagement from issue, which we've been working on for more than six workplace politics in general. If we months, happens to be our first during the Persian Gulf consider our own "deal" to be a War, which, contrary to reports, is only just beginning. relatively good one, we are not so compelled to embrace a radical, creativity This is reflected in the gallery of oppositional directly democratic movement that throughout the magazine, and in the continuation of this recognizes the workplace as the locus of social power. opening editorial by our friends Med-o, Primitive Morales, One big question, then, that arises Bean, and Zoe Noe. from this issue's theme (and also from the historic impasse of all workers' The main theme of this issue—"The vision? These are the questions this movements), is what kind of new Good Job"—serves as a rejoinder to issue of Processed World sets out to methods, formal or not, can we the most common criticism of Processed address in more than a half dozen develop to make practical our gen- World's bad work attitude: "If you pieces from a variety of people dis- eralized opposition to this society, don't like your job, why don't you cussing a multiplicity of jobs. while retaining and expanding the find one you do like?" As it turns out, In finding good, or at least better, good qualities of our current worklives? by virtue of our class, race, education, accommodation to the status quo, How can we reject Work as a social predispositions, talent and owing to the what have we gained or lost? In some institution, and reclaim our right to a peculiar U.S. history of Work cases we gain a greater sense of mean- useful, meaningful, enjoyable, autono- during the past decade, Processed ing, the sense that our work is con- mous, and democratic engagement Worlders have often managed to escape tributing to a better life. In other with the activities we decide we really the blatant misery of working in dead- cases, our work may not be intrinsi- want. end jobs directly for Corporate cally meaningful, but autonomy on the America. We have found jobs with job allows us to pursue what we do What exactly do we want from "progressive" organizations, started our consider meaningful, or leaves us more Work? Processed World has advocated a own businesses, found academic jobs, energy after work to do what we want. Bad Attitude toward Work, even the well-paid freelance work. Otherwise, we Most common, perhaps, is a confused abolition of Work as such. But what continue to work for low wages but and contradictory search for meaning does this mean in the real world of part-time in self-managed or and autonomy, responsibility and contrived scarcity, massive poverty and "alternative" businesses, sometimes respect, and of course financial security. deprivation, ecological holocaust, and cooperatively or collectively owned. Because this society is remarkably pandemic apathy and cynicism about And for some of us, the Good Job is a retarded in examining worklife, our the prospects for a better life? Don't well-paid, low-hassle niche in a techni- rationalizations and explanations tend our jobs, even our "good" jobs, contri- cal writing, programming, or such like to jump around from reason to reason, bute directly and indirectly to propping department in a larger institution. and each of us is finally forced into up this insane way of life? But what So, are these jobs better? Are they unpleasant compromises. about all the things we do as part of changed by our involvement in them? For some, a sixty-hour week in a our society's aggregate workload that Or are we changed by our jobs? Or community organization with a low are useful, do provide pleasure—for us both? Does our willing participation salary and "comp time" is justified by as workers and for those we care diminish the alienating qualities inevi- the feeling that at least one is helping about? How can we develop a language tably present in any job, "progressive," people. Genuine help and service is that appreciates the various impulses "alternative," or otherwise? What is often paid by the relief and gratitude that go into Work? the relationship between the specific of the served; the social contact can, Anyway, our personal feelings and purpose and content of a job and its at times, take on the qualities of a needs are by no means the only con- categorization as good or bad? What if "perk." Another person's forty-hour cern about Work. Our most public it still consists of stuffing envelopes or week is accepted on the grounds of a secret, in fact, may be the practical processing mailing lists? And what role good medical insurance plan, a lenient unconsciousness most of us bring to our is played by the relationships estab- boss and a light workload—plenty of participation in this complex, highly lished with co-workers? What are the time for personal phone calls, writing socialized aspect of human existence. criteria of good jobs? Meaning? projects, and so forth. The qualities of Completely absent from most current Pleasure? Money? Creative challenge? a job that we call "good" are highly discussions of freedom and democracy Social benefit? Freedom from super- varied. In identifying them we can is any concern for the missing social Issue! Page 2 PROCESSED WORLD 126/27 - Special 1 0th Anniversary Double PENTAGON PRODUCTIONS presents with the cooperation of all TV networks PROCESSED WORLD #26/27 — Special 1 0th Anniversary Double Issue! Page 3 done in an ecologically sound way? Ufe? The Economy, Growth, the Nation, In this issue we provide the reflec- and Money/Debt are all popular tions of a seasoned veteran of union myths (fictions) about the proper cate- and left organization jobs around the gories for analyzing life. They are also East in hlot Our Own; a disgruntled ex- GEORGE!! globally enforced institutions that food co-op worker in Austin, Texas, in compel routine mass murder, from Beatnik Managers, Tye-Dye Bureaucrats; a industrial accidents, by way of toxic jaded programmer at the progressive spills, to mass starvation. The Work Community Memory Project of Berkeley, we seek to abolish is the 10-50% of Ambivalent Memories of Virtual Community; every job and the 100% of millions of a hemmed-in investigative journalist at a jobs whose sole function is the creation large product-oriented computer publica- or manipulation of financial/property tion, A Trade Reporter's Report; the re- data (especially banking, real estate, in- turn of Kelly Girl, now a freelance writer; surance, and speculative markets), or an itinerant white-collar hobo down on anything to do with the war-making his luck in Texas, Penury of Plenty; a refu- capabilities of modern nation states.
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