ABSTRACT
In this essay, Hudson and Zimmermann emulate the multiple exhibitions of Labour in a Single Shot through two design and argumentation moves. First, they invent an algorithm to devise pathways through this project, connecting it with other projects or works that make comparable interventions and provocations. Whereas computational algorithms require well-defined instructions to perform logical calculations operating according to rules, the authors propose a more loosely defined set of propositions within whose gaps new ideas can be generated. Second, Hudson and Zimmermann extend these ideas of modularity to build a set of propositions that can function as a mosaic of ideas, politics, and theories. Propositions are less fixed than arguments: they put forth ideas, suggest relations between concepts; they offer the possibilities of open encounters rather than represent closed analyses.
