Processed World News Today

While most dystopian novels take readers to a faraway land of oppression and revolution, Mission District historian, activist, and tour guide Chris Carlsson decided to use his own city as the staging ground of his new dystopian fiction When Shells Crumble.

On situationist group King Mob's riotous intervention at Selfridges.

A complete archive of Processed World, a radical magazine based in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley area by and for office and information technology workers. Published 1981-2004.

A selection of early 1980s flyers from the Nasty Secretary Liberation Front, which was connected to Processed World magazine.

Tales of toil and occasional termination from offices and stores in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s by Lucius Cabins for Processed World.

An account of casual work, sabotage and getting sacked in the service industry, by Zoe Noe.

Jesse Drew writes for Processed World magazine on how workers and citizens have used modern technology to assert their humanity, from using subliminal images to blogging.

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