The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive/Content Protocol/TAoAYBfaR
🎵 Play The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
(Note that this is (by happy accident?) not the original recording)
Navigator: Switched channels to DOWN. We're tuned into 'The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise'. Performer: You will now be listening to The art of asking your boss for a raise by George Perec, a text written in 1968. High attention is required due to a lack of punctuation and presence of looping thoughts. Protocoller: Let us Listen.
If pad messages about channel switching
Navigator: We've received new intructions from Ground Control. Now switching channels.
🎵 Play channel switch channel_switch.mp3
CHANNEL UP1: Get Lamp -->
CHANNEL BASE: 1000 Fragments-->
CHANNEL DWN1: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise -->
If the piece of content ends while tuned in to this channel.
Navigator: That's the end of this piece of content. Protocoller: Give an outro to this piece of content. Performer: You were listening to 'The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise', a radio play by Georges Perec. Protocoller, do you have any information on Perec? Protocoller: Reading entry for 'Georges Perec' from the Wordhole Glossary in The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive: Writer, filmmaker and documentalist (French, 1936-1982). Member of the Oulipo group, a group of writers seeking for patterns and structures that could be used for practicing constrained writing. One of his major projects was in effect producing and working with a writing algorithm, (also using flowcharts). In context: An example of his practice can be seen in "The Machine". For the full experience, it can be best accompanied by its reading. See also: Flowchart Performer: Cool.