Starting a superstructure is only the beginning. The real task is envisioning what it can do, how it will work, and who you need to work with. If you're not a member, consider joining now. If you are a member, be bold, jump in, and use the superstructure to start organizing for survival. Edit it, add to the vision, and make it real, online and off. And don't forget to rave.

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  • Online as the new Production Line

    To return our projected attention to online collectivity activities such as this as ultimate superthreats.
  • Founder: litturaterre

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  • Who We Need

    People who spend vast amounts of time online.

    People who have been involved in the development of marketing, advertising, algorithm-production, related to counting mouse-clicks and watching the watching of those who go online.

    Computers who have been working to watch our watching but who do not feel right about these seductive/secretive practices. 

  • How to join
    In what ways can you imagine your time spent online, and especially contributing to superstruct, as unpaid productive labor?
  • Mission
    We will combine narratives and insights within the machine of superstruct (the game) to strategize forms of resistance to precisely such machines that are increasingly claiming our productive times and energies under the auspices of entertainment and eco-problem-solving. We will make clear that there is sweat within each post on flickr or facebook, and that this invisible intensification of production through visibility is in fact a superthreat all its own.
  • What we can accomplish
  • How this superstruct works
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  • Discuss this superstructure

    • I would love to see more discussion of the aims of this superstructure. Is generating awareness about the (often uncompensated) value of online contributions the only goal, or is there a desire to create some kind of compensation system, or unionization for people who contribute a great deal to collective online endeavors, or to explore non-monetary compensation systems (a la multi-capitalism), or?... say more -- this is a very important issue that I have been thinking about a lot. I for one would like to see a virtual particpation currency that you earn by making contributions or paying attention to other's projects, and which you can use to compensate others who contribute to YOUR project. Basically, a way to trade participation bandwidth within the economy of engagement. -- posted by avantgame

      I would also like to see a virtual particpation currency. I can see the superstruct (the game) moving forward beyond the end (of the game). Moving in ways that none of us expected, but in ways many of us are thrilled with. Ideas forming to come into light - questons on how to apply them after (the game). Connections are being made, hopes formed, dreams realized. This is turning out to be more than we thought (a game). Many of us put many hours into these machines in other areas (out of the game), and would like to pull all of this (the game) into these other areas. It is not a role (play), but a reality. -- posted by 2019Beverly

      Marco Antonio is taking pains to help us write up standard reports to describe ALL SuperStructs. It is an offsite project he has initiated. Look him and it up on www.sstruct.com  the Reconstruct site. It is pure genius.

      Also, E.A.T. was designed to help SEHIs coordinate their thoughts and efforts and is likewise available for interplay at www.sstruct.com  There is a 24 hour IdeaFeast beginning November 5 (Wednesday) 8am your local time. Join in (free) and start connecting. Please tell all your friends, associates and SS members. This will be a place to start advertising and annuoncing connections and collaborations. -- posted by PonyXpress 

       One small first step is documenting and publicizing the amount of time each of us spends creating online content, and then capturing some measure of its effect, so that we can calculate a Return on Investment. How much time has each of us spent contributing to Superstruct? Maybe the game designers can add something to the SEHI profile to let people keep a log. If "raves" and "badges" correlate in some way to having an effect on people's thinking (we can hope!) then we have some fodder for evaluation. --posted by Elizabeth Merritt

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