Psychic worker is the term first used around 2010 by the DAMTP (DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique) to self define as a union of
Data miners and psychic workers. The term was used initially to describe their activities instead of using the term 'artist', in order to "supersede the
art strike The first known reference to an Art Strike appears in an Alain Jouffroy essay: "What's To Be Done About Art?" (included in "Art and Confrontation," New York Graphic Society 1968).
"It is essential that the minority advocate the necessity of going o ...
.". It has subsequently also been used by members of DAMTP to describe and develop their avant-garde activities.
In 2011 the artist
Emit Snake-Beings invented the
multiple-use name
A multiple-use name or anonymity pseudonym is a name used by many different people to protect anonymity. It is a strategy that has been adopted by many unconnected radical and cultural groups, where the construct of personal identity has been crit ...
Karen Kranak for their activities with the ''Industrial Union of Psychic Workers'' as a breakaway faction from the
Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in Chicago in 1905. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain. IWW ideology combines genera ...
union.
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Situationist International
Psychogeography