slwr @entreprecariat@post.lurk.org

Hi hi!

Time for a 'lil #introduction. My name is Silvio, I'm Italian but I live in the Netherlands. In the past I researched artistic "post-digital" publishing, I wrote about the entrepreneurial ideology in relation to precarity, and did a lot of other stuff such as graphic design, web development, installations, net art, zines, weird tools, videoclips… I'm starting to suspect that consistency is not among my core skills

Right now I'm mostly busy documenting and understanding a sense of disillusionment that seems to permeate the design field.

Currently, I'm an assistant professor in design theory and criticism at the Center for Other Worlds in Lisbon (https://otherworlds.pt/) and I'm part of varia.zone, a lovely space dedicated to everyday technology.

I toot mostly about #labour, #design, #linux and #videogames. Also, I enjoy posting "unacceptable" CW puns.

While writing about the past and the present of computer usership, I amassed a mastodontic year-long thread. That was fun :) https://post.lurk.org/web/statuses/105695998969010498

The attached photo is by @joak

#introductions

So, after one year of read-write time about computers I thought of having a Mastodon première of The User Condition, a looong text on computer agency and behavior. Here's the link, enjoy:

https://theusercondition.computer/

Of course I'm profoundly grateful for the help that I received from all of you people here (check acknowledgements at the bottom).

Needless to say, I welcome feedback, criticism, bug/misspells reports and whatever else comes to mind :)

quick and dirty txt to converter https://silviolorusso.github.io/txt2hackertype/

this took as long as an MA…

if I could go back in time and choose my tag as a writer, it would definitely be FAT32

I read because in books I find allies, I encounter people that have already thought what I'm thinking, I meet eloquent individuals that make me feel less alone.

birdsite has become for me the new linkedin: my feed is full of people "thrilled" for the new job

What is the best character of The Witcher, and why exactly Bart the rock troll?

with the syllaBUS

any good article essay on wifi names as publication / grey literature?

bonus zine: http://p-dpa.net/work/xfinity/

in the meantime on birdsite… what a timeline!

… and that's quite a paradox, given that I'm officially a design researcher. I just hope it's a productive paradox.

(forked from birdsite https://twitter.com/miminew__/status/1432392237199998981/photo/1)

me watching you edit my etherpad

People learn skills. I, instead, acquire incapacities. For instance, I became utterly incapable of framing my activity through the lens of "projects". Obsessions, momentary passions, sudden epiphanies… this is what drives me. There is no plan, only gusts of winds tossing me around.