Antisocial
notworking
commons ownership auto-cannibalism share economy copyright legal theft control corporate value participation regulation property terms-of-service government military auto-generation hate subvert collective advertisement detournement anti-social sarcasm subjectivity valueless wrong error monkey capitalism structure analogue unplugged marketplace alter-ego death instruction loop disillusion feedback amateur data-mining reappropriation hybridization unfriendship hostility anti-design biopolitics twit language falsify gossip defamiliarization parasite discursive borders undoing status state database self love disinformation deconstruction blog delete conflict anonymity P2P gaming terror hacktivism voyeurism exhibitionism hack prank interface nihilism fake identity random suicide pirate parody boycott
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
seppuko
Hacking and parasiting Facebook, the most popular social networking website, Seppukoo.com deactivates one's user account, driving people into one of [...] more
logo_wiki
logo_wiki identifies military, corporate, and governmental editors of Wikipedia ('the Free Encyclopedia'). It does this by tracing back the editor's [...] more
Google Will Eat Itself
We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network
of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google
shares. [...] more
Amazon Noir
THE PLOT: The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using
sophisticated robot-perversion technology coded by [...] more
Participation 0.0 - Part I
'Second Life - Your World. Your Imagination' - with this tag-line
Linden Lab markets their virtual 3d world, Second Life. But [...] more
Twitter sk8
Wireless SK8boards Live connected to Twitterpage--- --- http://twitter.com/sk8monkey jodi WEBCRA.SH event Noordkaap %Local Hood SK8Monkeys -----go Twitter ---- 222222222222222222222222222222 ... [...] more
Blue Tube
"Blue 'Tube' is a tiny but powerful structuralist intervention into the ubiquitous video sharing site YouTube – the one-second video [...] more
a Fake is a Fake
Disillusion 2.0?
You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to [...] more
You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to [...] more
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web2dizzaster
::::First impression of a possible apocalypse where only HTML vestiges would remain inside a dehumanized network of all networks, these [...] more
Friendster Suicide
LIVE IN PERSON - Dec 2005
"Dear Internet,
I am writing this to announce that I am going to commit 'Friendster Suicide' [...] more
"Dear Internet,
I am writing this to announce that I am going to commit 'Friendster Suicide' [...] more