World Automatic (((((The Really Real Project)))))

University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

Author: Jonna Mayer; [2019]

Keywords: work; post-work; creativity; automation; commodification; de-commodification; marxism; UBI; universal basic income; communism; posthumanism; fiction; artefacts; future; history; ai; artificial intelligence; graphic design; design; self-design; CRISPR-cas9; unemployment; capitalism; postcapitalism; anthropocene;

Abstract: In a prospective post-work society, a select group of citizens participate in a cross-temporal project. As we follow along their journeys, questions arise. How does time move when it is no longer a commodity? What is design in the age of rampant robotics? How do we define creativity? What is wasted potential, and is it possible to be a failure? Most importantly, can fiction teach us anything about reality?

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