Superfactory(TM)

Karsten Asshauer
Martin Kuentz

SuperFactory(TM) - Kiosk Mod am Freitag, 11.11.2005, 20:00 Uhr

abstract:

SuperFactory(TM) - Kiosk Mod

You can participate in the Superfactory(TM) in 6 easy steps

Enter

(1) As a Prosumer you enter the Superfactory(TM) – Kiosk

(2) Play the ASCII MEMEX Game - "Be A Winner!"
and get Superfactory(TM)-Set for only € 3,-
A Bag with the original audio-cd with rip-material
and one antenna for your own Mini-FM transmitter

(3) Join the DIY* building of Mini-FM kits at the WorkShop

(4) Make up your own pirate radio station and broadcast on your
MHz-frequenzy your own private/public underground radioshow

(5) Join the Plug-In-Party togehter with other Prosumers

(6) Be revolutionary televised live! on Superfactory Channel TV

Exit

Step one actually is very simple, just start your career!

The second step consists of playing a nice "memory game", our new "MEMEX", where you get to know all the exciting people of the scene: the hacker artisan, the curatorsponsor, the peer-to-peer oparist, the supermart prosumer, the alternative economy believer, the open source ego, the multitude multi, and many more.
If you win, it's easy, you can buy the Superfactory(TM)-Set for only € 3,- A Bag with the original audio-cd with rip-material and one antenna for your own Mini-FM transmitter!

In (3) - organized like a workshop (DIY*) - you can become a blue collar worker and watch how Mini-FM kits are made, and operators will explain how you can finish yours.

Within step (4) you make up your own pirate radio station with your own MHz-frequenzy and your private/public underground radioshow (OC**).

In (5) you can join the Plug-In-Party togehter with other Prosumers.

Finally step six is the real highlight of it, when everything is broadcasted live on TV on Superfactory(TM) Channel (Webcam-Video-Beam - live-Stream).

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* DIY = Do-it-yourself
** OC = Open Content

Informational Free Jazz

We don't want to show "informational free jazz" = synonym for free labour but the combination of a production process with a point of sale. And there is hard work on hardware!

The Superfactory(TM) does not believe in immaterial work as the new new paradigm of capitalism.
And there is no doubt, that radio exists under capitalistic circumstances. Sure, for real work in a real factory you need to buy the labour of the workers. But here in this mix of a factory with a supermarket you can exploit yourself.
Sit down and assemble a transmitter and then do a better than good radio show for the people out there! It takes not more than 15 minutes of your lifetime-value (or more. YOU decide!).

Prosumers

You can regulate it all in a legal scence.
You can fight for open standards, open content, open sources, sure you can attack private property.
But as long as the surplus work and the surplus value happens in the modi of labour, and as long as exploitation is the de facto non-open meta-standard of society (call it service society, network society or post-industrialage) as a whole free radio practice is not the problem of restriction of knowledge power itself.
It is the problem of the control of a few - who want profit! - over many.

That is the wave of a clash of new forms of production, via data-manipulation, with the "making of..." of (in our case) mini-fm radio transmitters.
And when we say "we show" we want to invite people to build these kits and produce their own radio show.
But they have to play in front!
Prosumers rights are unfortunately not solved by the GPL.
Nothing is already there, there!
Or how do you bring on the bacon?

Copyleft (c) 2005 pi-radio & displaced dilemma

Superfactory(TM) is a non registered trademark by Pi-Radio and displaced dilemma.

bio:

Karsten Asshauer
lives in Berlin, Germany. does net-art. works as freelancer.

Martin Kuentz
lives in Berlin, Germany. does several workshops for DIY micro-fm-circuits and DIY sound-modules in europe.

linx:

mailto: superfactory-manager <manager-at-superfactory.biz>
www.superfactory.biz
www.piradio.de
217.160.178.83/~modukit/displaced-dilemma/