ITEM OVERVIEW
A wonderful oversize collection of writings and graphics from the first twenty issues of (the now legendary) Processed World magazine. Dedicated to giving voice to be benumbed foot-soldiers of the information age, it contains blistering first-hand accounts of life at the bottom of the ladder in big banks, defense contractors, computer manufacturers, and food processing factories. In these pages the service economy and the new high tech jobs often touted in glowing terms by the mainstream media are exposed for their quotidian banality, their essential uselessness, and the Catch-22 absurdity that permeates all corporate life under late capitalism. Moving at bike messenger speed between offices, Bad Attitude describes the hazards of the office computer and how to sabotage it, mutant culture in Silicon Valley, the new transience undercutting links at work, the connections between time and money, bosses and secretaries, resistance and resignation. It provides a unique basis for new theoretical developments in the struggle for human liberation, and, above all, it assures the thousands of isolated rebels mired in dead-end and deadening jobs that they are not alone. "There has been no magazine that I can think of in the last 10 years that has more diligently and excellently fulfilled the first duty of radical journalism: to describe the world as it actually is. Here are the Notes from Underground of the Information Age, news of the condition of the working class in the Valley of Silicon." —Alexander Cockburn
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