It is my most profound and burning desire to see the last designer hung with the guts of the last artist. For only freed from these tyrants shall we finally aspire to a life of real fulfillment and satisfaction. Only freed from these guard dogs of the ruling power structure shall we once again take control over the reins of our lives, invert the castrating perspective of the social stratification and start enjoying a good that is presently just the privilege of some: the vivifying everyday life rooted in our most intense desires.
Just as afta represents simultaneously the little ulceration of the mucosae that insists on disheveling us with pain days in a row and the portuguese phonetic translation of the english word "after", so our game has two layers of meaning: we both want to meticulously torture design practice and transform it into a common good shared equally and non-hierarchically. Only the distracted ones will not see that these two actions are not only not antagonistic, but actually complete each other: only by completely destroying and demystifying design can one dream about its propagation as a tool of emancipation of the living moment. Just as modernism opened up to the possibility of a critical look at itself, exhausted itself with that criticism and spawned post-modernism, the era of the oscillating subject, so design will do the same until it spawns the post-design, the era of the designer without ontology, the one open to the difference and thirsty for experimentation. This fearless designer gifts without compromises and creates exuberant, self-referential work. It's creation for its own sake, gifting as a way of life.
Everyday we are witnesses of the total disaggregation of the poor representation of life's spectacle, instigated by the fierce advances of the horizontal communication networks, the same ones that pass the power back to our side of the field. These are the networks that give us the means to operate this paradigm shift, here and now. For now it is us who control and create the media, and not the other way around. It is us who decide what's relevant and it is us who make the culture we consume. Long gone are the days when the information was controlled by a tyrannical elite. The time as come for us to write our own history.
Help us destroy the Designer's tyrannical kingdom. Here we shall build the biggest template database, for the template, simply through its existence, questions the Designer's activity. We want sharing, swapping and communication between those who possess the knowledge and those who seek it, as opposed to a vertical and oppressing discourse that hides the conservation of the ruling power structures. The template is not seen here as a prefabricated formula, but instead as an open process.
This site was done using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL. Here's the php code with comments, the CSS stylesheet and the XHTML file.