With Love, from a Failed Planet • 2011

With Love, from a Failed Planet is an interactive logoed world populated with 45 strange and fantastical stories of the societal/cultural failure of influential net portals, fast food giants, newspapers, airlines, manufacturers and other oddities. And Huffington Post is included! Initially I had assumed the creation of this net-artwork would be risky, as some of those whose end I forecast might sue. Oddly, these folks must be pleased with my depiction of their end.

”A satirical piece of netart featuring multiple short fictions detailing the failure of well-known, contemporary institutions, primarily corporations such as Apple, IKEA, and CNN, though corporatized political entities (Canada, France, and the White House) and individuals (author Neil Gaiman) are also ribbed. Readers access the prose narratives by hovering over iconographic logos, affixed to a rotating, transparent globe. A minimalist, electronic soundtrack, reminiscent of those used in planetarium productions from the late 1970s and early 1980s, enhances the work's retro-futurist commentary on the factors leading to obsolescence in the capitalist world-system.” - Rasmussen, Dean Eric.

Published & exhibited

Nelson, Jason. 2011. ”With love, from a failed planet”. Cordite poetry review. 1 December 2011.

Select documentation

Playable version: With Love, from a Failed Planet.

Rasmussen, Dean Eric. ”With Love, from a Failed Planet”. Elmcip.

Consortium on Electronic Literature: https://cellproject.net/work/love-failed-planet

The NEXT entry: https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/970/0/0/

Electronic Literature Directory entry: https://directory.eliterature.org/individual-work/3589