#processedworld — Public Fediverse posts

Scored a few more issues of Processed World for my collection. This was an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian zine that was published in S.F. between 1981-1994. It focused on issues of office workers (programmers, file clerks, call center operators, etc) and often tackles themes of sexism and worker’s rights in the workplace. #ProcessedWorld

@parismarx oh hell yeah! Processed World is such an important part of San Francisco punk and #zine culture. I’m particularly fond of the art that folks like @tomtomorrow and Dr Hal Robertson contributed to most of the issues.

Here’s my #ProcessedWorld collection (only missing 1-3, 13, 18-22, and 25-27). #TechCriticism

By serving as a forum for “ordinary” workers, #ProcessedWorld has reinforced the often suppressed truth that social knowledge and subversive wisdom flow from people's daily lives and not from an ideology or group of experts. By building a radical publication around art and humour, PW has reemphasised the importance of immediate enjoyment, both for surviving this insane world, and for reintroducing fun into radical attempts to change it.

https://archive.org/details/processedworld?tab=collection

#knowledgeworkers #Capitalism

@MoiraEve

Yes one scenario of #knowledgeworkers #strike - as a story - back in 2009
https://hbr.org/2009/07/the-knowledge-workers-strike-2

Also #ProcessedWorld magazine about processing - back in 1980s out of San Francisco financial district
https://processedworld.com/History/history.html

Remember media activism before the Internet era ... #ProcessedWorld magazine was founded in 1981 by a small group of dissidents, mostly in their twenties, who were then working in San Francisco's financial district. The magazine's creators found themselves using their only marketable skill after years of university education: “handling information.” In spite of being employed in offices as “temps,” few really thought of themselves as “office workers.”..
https://archive.org/details/processedworld?tab=collection
#InternetArchive

I found this digitized interview with a worker on Community Memory (public bulletin board system in Berkeley/SF in 70-80s) from Processed World!

I didn't realize it was online—last saw in print in the SFPL's special collections (they have every issue of Processed World at the main branch—a gem).

http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Ambivalent_Memories_of_Virtual_Community

#BBS #archives #ProcessedWorld

@cypnk hey I remember #ProcessedWorld! At least I remember the name, and it being a big thing in anarchist circles. Not sure now if I ever actually got hold of a copy.