antisocial notworking is a repository of projects
that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent
software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for
'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. The
concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a
'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question
what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social
networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the
nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be
identified? [...] more
'antisocial notworking' is a repository of projects
that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent
software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for
'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. The
concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a
'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question
what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social
networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the
nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be
identified?
Emergent forms are undoubtedly dissimilar to the ways in
which social relations have been traditionally organised, but, in
general, appear to reinforce existing power structures. The suggestion
of the project is that without the identification of antagonisms that
underpin sociality, politics simply cannot be engaged. [...] more
We are looking
to add examples of existing and new projects to our 'antisocial
notworking' repository that address these themes in uncompromising ways.
