Zine Revue 01

Title: Astral Projection for the Modern Business

Author: FollyProblem

Category: Work

A mysterious and appealing riso zine in a unique skinny rectangle type format. I knew I had to pick this one up because I've been very into parody or satire for estranging the accepted absurdities of work lately. Work from home becoming much more of a norm in response to the COVID-19 pandemic kind of forces the question of the extent to which a lot of contemporary work requires presence versus simply using it as a means of control, or, on the other hand, demands splitting your knowledge and skills from feeble human limitations of the body. This zine combines evocative language somewhere between a guide to witchcraft and a timeshare brochure with savvy appropriations of public domain art to push the fantasies of worker compliance and productivity represented by the increasingly abstract, financialized economy to weird and hilarious extremes.