PROJECT UPDATE

Hey all,

We’ve been extremely busy in the last few weeks. Members of our group began to analyse aspects of the everyday and wasted/leisure time in order to pinpoint where an intervention could be made. We kept diaries over the course of a week in order to do this quickly and effectively. Our original final idea was an attempt to subvert ‘wasted time’ and explore the possibilities for creativity within our everyday, banal experiences. However, after carrying out our own ‘mini-actions’ we found the prospect of forcing people to be creative, problematic.

Last week the emphasis of our project shifted slightly. We have decided to focus on work and its impact on/relationship to our leisure time. ‘Wages for Facebook’ is a brilliant example of how what we perceive to be leisure is in fact tantamount to unpaid labour. To consider every day experiences such as social networking perfectly innocuous, is to fundamentally ignore the role we play in the process of capital accumulation. We have begun to question whether leisure time actually exists...

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