March 30 - 2 of Wands

Potential, planning, and the decisive moment of departure...

As someone who loves both sabotage and detournement, I was kind of delighted to find out about this group. Tonight we also watched Cindy Sherman's only feature film, Office Killer, which is also in part about the consequences of digitalization on workers.

Eliminating computers altogether but trying to do the same work... as a textbook editor I imagine there would be elements that would become now, so tedious and slow relative to my expectations that it might be psychologically unbearable. In some senses I've acclimated to a lot of what distressed people at the time of its introduction.

But at the same time, we're living in the consequences of broad information technology adoption, from increased precarity to the ease of tracking and rounding up visa recipients. We're more intimately entangled with computing, so the ways we sabotage or detourn these systems for our own purposes my be more complex, but the important thing is to plan, have a vision and, somehow, step over the threshold...