Antisocial
notworking
commons ownership auto-cannibalism share economy copyright legal theft edit control corporate value participation regulation property terms-of-service government military auto-generation hate subvert collective advertisement detournement anti-social sarcasm subjectivity celebrity wrong error semantic capitalism structure analogue unplugged marketplace alter-ego death instruction loop publishing disillusion feedback amateur blogs data-mining reappropriation hybridization friendship hostility html anti-design biopolitics boundaries language commiserate falsify gossip defamiliarization parasite discursive borders undoing dismantle status state database self love think believe feel wish deconstruction blog delete
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
