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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. A solid copy of a later issue of this important anarchist technological magazine. Includes an early "Life in Hell" strip by Matt Groening. Unmarked copy with minor wear, staples have some rust. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. A nice copy of a later issue of this important anarchist technological magazine. Unmarked copy with minor wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, ii+46pp, stapled wrappers. A nice copy of the first issue of this important anarchist technological magazine. Unmarked copy with minor wear. Not Signed.

The first ten issues of the tech-critical, anti-capitalist magazine that satirized the absurdity of office work at the dawn of cubical culture and neoliberalism, "the first decade of that process of destroying social relationships and replacing them with market relationships" (Carlsson, quoted by Warner). Continuous runs of the early issues of Processed World are rare. The magazine lampooned the absurdity of modern office work as isolating, derogatory, and damaging to real human needs. Volunteers handed out copies on the streets of San Francisco. It ran to 32 issues, with the final published in 2005. The first three issues "were printed entirely on stolen paper from the banks of San Francisco", smuggled out by Carlsson and his compatriots after a day of office toil. "We just saw this huge amount of waste, this huge amount of wealth, and we felt like, 'let's divert some of this towards something actually useful for humans, rather than just the reproduction of meaningless data for banks and other entities in the capitalist system'" (Carlsson). Processed World published dystopian short stories based in offices, poetry and dialogues, tongue-in-cheek advertisements for productivity contraptions or services, and serious articles addressing life in a "deteriorating and self-destructive social system" (Issue 1, p. ii). Becca Warner, "To end neoliberalism, we have to 'stop everything we do'", Huck, 19 June 2023, available online. Together 10 volumes, octavo. Illustrated and with text in multiple colours throughout. Original wire-stitched white wrappers printed in monochrome. A little marked with occasional creases to edges; overall a very good set.