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The Immaterial Labor Union

The Immaterial Labor Union was born out of a desire to shunt from the atomization of the individual into the collective, to think about alternatives to the neoliberal grey area of the multitude and its permanent state of insulation. It refuses the technocratic graphing out of social relationships, the abstraction of the community to a network of edges and vertices carefully mined to more profitably design the subject. The union holds that a true knowledge economy is only worthy of such title when not dependent on power assymetries, and so demands transparency and control over the means of production - our own subjectivation. Making use of deception and other ubiquitous strategies such as the instrumentalization of communities and factorization/machinization of social activity, the neoliberal apparatus has found ways to coopt yet another one of its critiques, labelling our current mode of exploitation under the "social" tag. To put it simply, the immaterial labor union intends to be a space of community reflection around the question: "How not to be seen, yet still be represented?" Influences can be traced to authors such as Maurizio Lazzarato and his conception of immaterial labor, Mirko Tobias Schäfer and his writings about participatory culture, more precisely, implicit user participation, William Morris and Henry Flynt.

MANIFESTO Draft

We, the multitude, refuse to operate under your terms of service. We, the multitude, oppose against our likes buying your political power. We, the multitude, demand our leisure time not to be commodified. We, the multitude, will not click into your hierarchy of influencers and influenced. We, the multitude, demand the means of control over our subjectification. We, the multitude, oppose against our comments being the trendsetters of your revenue. We, the multitude, will not comply to your cyberstalking ways of monetizing our relationships. We, the multitude, refuse to be seen as the multitude but aknowledge the political, social and cultural assymetries within our midst. We, the multitude, will engage critically in thinking representation as opposed to surveillance. We, the multitude, demand transparency and control over the production of social relations. We, the multitude, refuse to smile away our political demands and positively accept your control discourse feed.