U+ZINE #2 - Do Corporations have a future? - Plurality University

JULIEN PRÉVIEUX’S COUNTER-PRODUCTIVITY
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« Work, management, economics, politics, control systems, state-of-the‐art
technologies and the culture industry are the many ‘worlds’ that ✷ Julien
Prévieux’s activities involve. (…) His work often appropriates the vocabulary,
mechanisms and modus operandi of the sectors by which it is informed,
the better to highlight their dogmas, excesses and, when all is said and
done, their vacuousness. By shrewdly adopting the stance of an individual
facing whole swathes of society that are, in many respects, dehumanised,
Prévieux develops a strategy of counterproductivity, or what the philosopher
Elie During called, in a recent essay about the artist’s praxis, ‘counteremployment’.
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«What Shall We Do Next?» - Sequence #3
Christophe Gallois
Where Is My
(Deep) Mind?
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed”
says Wiliam Gibson. The gestures to activate a new
device are patented. For example the “slide-to-unlock”
movement has been patented by Apple several years
ago. Julien Prévieux started to collect these specific movements
in 2006. His assumption was that the gestures
patented today are the movements we may all have to
do in the near future: patents as an archive of gestures to
come.