
Irational.org's Traum
A Psychoarchaeologist's Dramaturgy
Slater Berry(Editor)
Mute Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-906496-98-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a psychoarchaeological reconstruction of an art collective, irational.org, who existed in the times of the internet. The material reconstituted here was derived, after irational.org's disappearance, from multiple requests for data from their archived art server. These requests, made by post, were submitted by the author, V.M., to an unidentified and unreliable Data Auditor, using a Secure Access Protocol. It is rumoured that access to the archive was securitised by irational.org because it contains highly sensitive, possibly incriminating, data. The psychoarchaeologist's reconstruction reveals a cultural organisation that satirised, resisted and internalised the libertarian yet bureaucratic tendencies of a surveillance society, and its obsession with data privacy, security and property. The trail runs cold as the group made its retreat into the woods from a world that was disintegrating.
Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute & the Post-Media Lab
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Series
Edition
Pml Book Series ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Mute Publishing Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
144 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906496-98-2 (9781906496982)
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