User:Kul/Projects are bad for me!

Eighteenth Project Outline

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What do you want your first project to be?

I would like to create an interactive "platform" ( the website seems to be the easiest solution, yet still unsatisfactory) where users would be able/obliged to engage in party funny, partly absurd and largely oppressive conversation with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation. The nature of code I carry in mind and intend to develop is being unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic...or at least quasi-marxist. All this intellectual effort is going to be conducted by me in order to “attack” the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. After Trebor Scholz, I wish to state that it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace. I am planning to approach this theme form various angels: economical, semiotic, moral and existential.

How do you plan to make it?

In order to develop a double-meaning chatting system (productive at the surface but resistant underneath)I am planing to follow the conceptual schema mentioned below:

• Western neoliberal society= the Solitaire Card Games on your desktop
• Innovative society=squeezing the surplus form the trash, pop, and stupor
• Cognitive surplus=smoking but not inhaling
• Coercive laws of completion=the biggest chocolate cake on your Facebook wall
• Code= naturalisation and fragmentation of ideology
• Code = barriers of ideology
• Ideology= set of user-(un)friendly values
• Ideology= a military entertainment / PLAYBOR
• Playbor=fun factory for an intellectually unemployed, freed teddy bear
• Teddy bear=no-collar tiger!
• Code=FUN FACTORY, CHARCH, SUPERMARKET
• Technology= fantasy and terror of NON WORKING >Time management
• Moments=element$ of profit
• Code =ahistorical map of meaning
• Code =apparently transparent & neutral value generator
• Code=denial of death/negation of an animal spirit
• User=product=commodity = bearer of value
• User in motion=temporality of value
• Value = useful, wanted, desirable schizophrenia
• Symbolic x value = x passed in the process of user exchange
• x = a hot potato
• Symbolic zero value =empty floating signifier
• Communication=the release of prisoners (parole)

Why?

I want to play with the idea of (un)productivity due to some serious personal problems. I myself am sadly stricken with anxiety of participating in the value production system I do not quite understand.

Who can help and how?

Everyone, but maybe I am getting too idealistic here. I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers.

What are you working on now?

Re-configuring my brain and composing some unholy algorithms

Relation to previous practice

How does your research connect to previous projects you have done? Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session

Relation to a larger context

Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)

References

A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.) See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing

Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.