User:Bohye Woo/Special Issue 7: Entreprecariat + Life Hacks

Research

Life Hacks
Managing time to be efficient.
Concept of manage: be in charge of something.
How to live your life efficiently.
No challenge No Success

Self-optimization
How much you control of your life.
A 3-module publication: Time management, space inhabitation, and mind tweaking.

Objects

Question

• What tone of voice (manual/self-help book/novel/survival kit)
  
• What kind of collection and documentation?
  

Whole Earth Catalog https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Brand_Stewart_Whole_Earth_Catalog_Fall_1968.pdf http://doorofperception.com/wp-content/uploads/whole_earth_catalog-spring-1969.pdf

Computer Lib/Dream Machines by Ted Nelson http://linkedbyair.net/bin/Ted%20Nelson%20Computer%20Lib%20Dream%20Machines%20-%201st%20edition%201974.pdf

Precarity (san precario) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275447294_San_Precario_A_New_Inspiration_for_Labor_Historians

Life Hacks

Object-based

Based on my experience, I recognised myself:
using a same water bottle to fill the water/juice
using a fruit container as a case of my laptop charger
using a cup as a pot for my plants
using a paper to cool down my wine

Therefore,
water bottle is being used as a juice/water container
fruit container is being used as a laptop charger
cup is being used as a pot
paper is being used as a cooler
= every single objects can be used for a life hack.

system-based

Chain / circular system idea:
All things can be used in a different way. One object can be related to another object which could be a trigger to the other object. .

Inspiration

Random Things Generator https://www.randomlists.com/things?qty=100&dup=false&show_images=true

List of Everyday Objects https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/189583

life hacks video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh4b3jRlKP8

MindHacks

using its absurdity and ambiguity of the objects

Readings

Required reading:

• Bröckling, Ulrich. The Entrepreneurial Self: Fabricating a New Type of Subject. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2016. Chapter 2: Tracing the Contours of the Entrepreneurial Self (Silvio will scan it soon!)File:Chap2.pdf
• Schumpeter, Joseph A. The Creative Response in Economic History The Journal of Economic History 7, no. 2 (1947): 149–59.
• Sennett, Richard. 2015. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton. Chapter 1 and 2.

Suggested reading:

• Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Assembly. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Chapter 9: Entrepreneurship of the Multitude
• Ventura, Raffaele Alberto. The Leisure Class Disease

More Readings

• Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Introduction, chapter 10 and chapter 14.
• Kitchin, Rob, and Martin Dodge. Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. Introduction.