Processed World

Editor: Chris Carlsson & Caitlin Manning

Processed World (1981-2005) was an anti-corporate zine published by a collective of San Francisco's finest disgruntled corporate workers and temps. Published somewhat pseudonymously at the time, the magazine critiqued the information economy, corporate culture and workplace idiocy. As the "magazine with a bad attitude," Processed World attempted to bridge punk DIY with corporate labor politics--and well, fuck the corpos, man.

Issues

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  Spring 1987, Issue 19

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  Perhaps it was the late 80's when folks first started to notice the feeling of transience in the workplace? This issue certainly hammers it home. Dennis Hayes analyzes the diminishing connections workers feel to their jobs, while others tell their harrowing "Tales of Toil" working in temp agencies, teaching in colleges, and working in typesetting. But Processed World is no boring academic rag--you'll also find fiction, poetry, and book reviews.

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  February 1984, Issue 10

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  Issue 10 turns its great head towards technology, its dangers and how it can be "exposed, resisted and subverted." Articles elucidate West Germany's resistance to Personnel Information Systems, the British computer worker strikes in the late 70s/early 80s, and also features an interview with CLODO, the french IT saboteurs--in case you want to see how subversion is accomplished in other parts of the world.

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  Fall 1982, Issue 6

  Format: Print; PDF;

  Language: English

  You don't expect a zine made by San Francisco's fed up office workers to feature a radical critique of workplace language examining how corporate terminology serves power structures through loaded meanings. Nor do you except it to hound a historical analysis tracing the baby boomer generation from post-WWII prosperity through 1960s counterculture to early-1980s office work disillusionment--but here we are.

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