We predicted some of these developments in a contribution to Icon magazine, “Rebranding Britain” (2010), and talked a little about it in a Design Observer interview with William Drenttel (2010). These policies have enticed not an improvement of society, but a further privatization of wealth under an increasingly repressive policing regime. Its main message was “big society, not big government.” A Wikipedia idea of commissioned civic voluntarism supplanting the last remains of the welfare system, like “we’re no longer paying for this school or post office, but feel free to start your own.” In 2010, in the United Kingdom, the Conservatives won the elections with a pro-austerity campaign promise full of social media brandspeak. We anticipated that anti-terrorism in the future would become crowdsourced self-censorship-the most effective Department of Homeland Security being your very own social network. In our earlier project Stadtstaat (2009), exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, we examined the ideology of participatory government as a disguised form of totalitarianism. Facestate started from our interest in social media and statehood. The “face” in Facestate refers to Facebook. What are the components of the Facestate installation and, if not immediately apparent, what do they represent? In an interview with Walker designer Andrea Hyde, the duo discusses how Facestate presents the tools, the vernacular, and the identity of a fictitious, but all-too-familiar social network.įor full documentation of the installation, visit the Walker Design blog. In 2010, they released Uncorporate Identity, an anthology of work featuring the studio’s writings and visualizations of networks, politics, branding, and the overlap among all three. Recent activities range from research around and product design for WikiLeaks to the identity design for Sealand, a self-proclaimed sovereign nation-state located on a platform seven miles off the British coast. An Amsterdam-based studio for design and research, Metahaven was founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden to engage in projects intended to spark discussion and foster inquiry. In case it's digipack or cardboard sleeve the price is correct.“We are interested in the ways in which Facebook and government, Facebook and employers, Facebook and friends, Facebook and enemies constitute a power arrangement, and the way in which this constellation might influence politics, currency, and the social contract.” So says Meta haven of Facestate, a Walker-commissioned project in the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production. (outside Belgium and only incase you buy only 1cd). Postage for cd's is quoted without jewelcases. Postal rates: These prices include postage/professional mailers/handling. As said above: everything above 230 gram in weight is tracked.Ī minimum order of 4 euros (without postage off course) is adviced (have a look at combined shipping terms for cheaper terms) If you have problems regarding a parcel do contact me before starting insults, or claims. IF DISCOGS NEW SHIPPING TERMS WOULD BE OVERCHARGING POSTAGE I WILL REFUND THE DIFFERENCE. !!! Everything over 230 grams is tracked: General rule is you can usually add a number (or a lot even) of items once you are in a certain weight zone.ĪLL ORDERS MUST BE PAYED WITHIN 5 DAYS, or your order will be cancelled which generates an automatic negative feedback from discogs. !!! Non-traceable for ALL items under 230 grams (so that's weight upto 2 cd's, cassettes or singles) Orders will be cancelled if payment is not received within 5 days.
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