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Department of Ongoing Digital Situations
Psuedomanifesto Kit: Instructions: (carefully identify all parts before assembly) Our everyday city is the machine where meaning in the service of capital is produced. Every alley, every artery, every gleaming shop front shouts the lie of freedom via the mediated vector of advertising and government sponsored fear campaigns. These forces; the military entertainment complex, and the aging ad man's contempt for the liberty of the imagination have succeeded in generating an urbanised sense of universal threat. Free play desire can be found within the silent invisible fortress of power we know as the city. We invoke the spirit of Debord in our creation of Digital Situations, in our re-use of the urban and information landscape. Cut and paste and free from site specific privatisation, the digital situation is, as the invoice book proclaims, an 'original copy' - a new simulacrum. The Real Game Our mallspace is protected. Our credit system and point of sale networks stand in for community. Gated cities have expanded and now our once open agora has been territorialised by the Corporate Imagination. The Real Game is that which places the player in a never ending position of defensive retreat. The Real Game offers the consumer a wide range of choices and a wide range of payment options but ultimately the distraction of the commodity reveals nothing other than the ubiquity and intolerance of the the vector, the spectacle. DOODS Gameplay An oasis of creativity, a hotbed of innovation is the Department's own sense of the ongoing virtue of free play, the liberated toolkit for negotiating the remapped terrain. Tools of coded freedom, legends to maps of liberty are our expression of the need for new uses for urban space, for architectural integrity in the service of open expression, non bought out ideas, and general good times. This game has great gameplay. It has Dynamic Play Adjustment: the game gets more enjoyable the better one is at playing. The laughter is now growing louder in the mall. Soon the children, the elderly, the dispossessed will share in open agora of chaos and chance. Belief in the city can return. Art and science have vanished as definers in the utopia of the Drift. A good piece of code has no instructions. Throw the manual away! Like wandering the corridors of 'Doom' with the single purpose of *finding ones way around a new space* we throw away our reluctance at engaging in life for its own sake, and creating digitally our parallel worlds. Those with imagination don't need internet accounts. A Good Future waits those who switch on the Indifference Engine - the device which drives essential knowledge and authority back to the anal sphincter of fear which created them. Claim a portfolio and please don't join the Department of Ongoing Digital Situations.
No waiting. No authority. No threat. No Government. Psuedomanifesto Kit: Department of Ongoing Digital Situations |
