Processed World
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| Categories | Anarchist |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Total circulation | 4,000[1] |
| Founder | Chris Carlsson |
| First issue | April 1981 |
| Final issue Number | 2005 32 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | San Francisco, U.S. |
| ISSN | 0735-9381 |
Processed World was an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian magazine focused on the oppressions and absurdities of office work, which, at the time the magazine began, was becoming automated.[2] The magazine was founded by Chris Carlsson, Caitlin Manning, and Adam Cornford in 1981.[3] No new issues have been produced since 2005.[1]
The print magazine was widely distributed to and read by office workers in Downtown San Francisco during the years the print magazine was published from 1981 to 1994.[4][5][6]
Publication history
[edit | edit source]Processed World began publication in April 1981 and was printed on an irregular basis, approximately quarterly to semi-annually until Winter 1992. There were 32 published printed issues.
There have subsequently been three more issues published on the Internet — number 33 in 1995, and two more issues, one in 2000 and one in 2005. These last two issues are numbered 2.001 and 2.005. All of the issues of the magazine are now available online.[7]
Themes
[edit | edit source]The magazine is about the absurdity and futility of modern employment practices in which a large number of college-educated people are often forced to seek temporary work with no employee benefits. The magazine details the subversive attitudes and sense of humor required for workers to be able to get through the day when forced to perform dull, degrading and boring work as wage slaves doing modern office work such as working as a computer programmer, word processor, call center operator, data entry operator, telemarketer or file clerk.[8][1][4][6]
Contributors
[edit | edit source]Writers that have had work published by the magazine include founder Carlsson, Manning, Chris Winks, Denis Hayes, Greg Williamson, Jim Swanson,[3] Fred Rinne, Adam Cornford, John Norton, Jesse Drew, and Donna Kossy and many more. The magazine featured art and cartoons by artists such as Tom Tomorrow,[9] Melinda Gebbie,[1] Ted Rall,[10] Jay Kinney, Freddie Baer,[11] and Paul Mavrides.
Many of the magazine's contributors, such as Dan Perkins, e.g. "Tom Tomorrow," adopted pseudonyms to avoid retribution from potential employers.[9]
See also
[edit | edit source]Further reading
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- Robert Elias, "Tom Tomorrow. (the Progressive Interview)," The Progressive (March 2003).
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d Silverman, Jacob. "World Processor," The Baffler (July 2014). Retrieved June 6, 2018.
- ^ Processed World home page:
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- ^ a b Carlsson, Chris. "Processed World: A Political History," Notes From Below (June 8, 2019). Originally from Logout #7. Retrieved June 17, 2019
- ^ "History and Themes," Processed World website.
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- ^ Morley, Madeleine. "1980s Mag Processed World Voiced Resistance to the Digitalization of the Workplace," Eye on Design (January 23, 2018). Retrieved June 6, 2018.
- ^ Thomas Murray Saté, "20 Questions for Freddie Baer", Edinburgh Review #89 (Spring 1993).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Processed World at the Internet Archive: a complete run of the issues is available except for issue 33.
- Quarterly magazines published in the United States
- Anarchist periodicals published in the United States
- Defunct political magazines published in the United States
- Irregularly published magazines published in the United States
- Magazines established in 1981
- Magazines disestablished in 2005
- Magazines published in San Francisco
- Zines published in the United States
- Anarchism in California