OOPS! DID SOMETHING GO WRONG? by Karolina Kucia

OOPS! DID SOMETHING GO WRONG? Yes, Horribly wrong ... But when? This workshop deals with “monstrous” within cooperation. It is organised as an online “comic book” storyline including bits of co-writing, bits of collective performance and a bit of discussion. The workshop begins with stories of hypocrisies, inadequacies and unease experienced within organizational settings and proceeds through the monstrous altering of those narratives. The characters of Vagina Dentata, Ass-Theth, M/Outhor, Zombie, Cannibal, and Bug are introduced into the plot. These monstrous roles are based on myths, pieces of fiction and academic writing from the field of organizational theory. They either represent the monstrous existing within organizational structures or the monstrous that is/was historically cast away from the social organizations as unsuitable, unproductive or unmanageable. The set of writing sessions opens up into a performative presentation/collective reading and finally into a discussion between monstrous positions and participants.

now,

A word pass does not stand only for access. It also means to decline of doing something else.

So, now when 'we' have pointed out the obvious fact of user being responsible... or at least complicit... and not at all coerced into using, 'we' can officially proclaim that:

You've been succesfully trained in the protocol of entering

...and in the procedure of accepting of the protocol.

the main rule of user is: "to be the user is also, always, to be the used".

(words of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun from Control and Power: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.p 28 used by Precarity Lab on in Technoprecarities, Goldsmiths Press, 2020. p 34)

now, let's move on.

moving on

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