‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the day capitalism ends,’ someone once said.
Total.Earth is a fictitious start-up that is entering the market with its app ZIZ. ZIZ takes its name from a giant creature from the Old Testament. While Leviathan is a water monster and king of fish and Behemoth lives underground and rules over the earth, Ziz is a giant bird whose realm stretches across the clouds. The ZIZ app allows unlimited access to everything. Once registered on the app, everything is shared and for free. Free food, free housing, free local transport. Every service is fair, every product is organically grown, a new freedom without borders - almost. Property - a relic from the past - is strictly forbidden and punished accordingly. The ZIZ app is marketed as an operating system for alternative societies and governments willing to experiment.
We see the current development of the sharing economy as the final phase of capitalism - instead of a revolution, this chapter will come to a surprising end after an extatic final act of purchase. From then on, everything will belong to everyone and no one will own anything.
Total.Earth is presented to the Berlin art and tech scene as a religious initiation rite of two futuristic shamans at the Forecast Festival 2019/2020. During the festival, Steenbock and Behrbohm (SONDER) unexpectedly join forces with the competing collectives Parasite2.0 and Questions Collective to continue the three collectivist endeavours as the ‘Collective of Collectives’, contrary to the festival's statutes.
