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A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry

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Ethnography of a design studio in the mobile telecoms industry 2

Burgundy chairs. Black desks. White walls. Grey air.

Incessant constant: whirr howl rustle roar:
air-conditioning, Minolta photocopier, projector, printer, Mac.

Emptied window, in-corporate sky: the brand penumbra:
no shadow, no light. No line, no shape, no limb: dismembered.
Defleshed. Dejuiced.
Leached.

Bland!
expanding, pressing, reaching, swallowing.
(I am) partially digested. Burgundy stained. Raging.

Ethnography is never objective.



(c) Laura Watts
Winter 2004