The Jobless Diaries started out as 17 brief texts scattered in Christoforos Kasdaglis’s book ‘Bankrupted Anonymous’ (Kastaniotis editions, 2012). The unemployed from across Greece, eponymous and anonymous, will be continuing the narrative by writing here. It is a volunteer initiative with the aim of breaking the taboo of shame and giving the unemployed a stage, so that they express themselves, recording their experiences in texts of up to 350 words. An internet venture that aspires to muster varied communication channels in order to maximize the result - that the unemployed find a voice which the dominant mainstream media and the political system have taken away from them.
The Jobless Diaries started out as 17 brief texts scattered in Christoforos Kasdaglis’s book ‘Bankrupted Anonymous’ (Kastaniotis editions, 2012). The unemployed from across Greece, eponymous and anonymous, will be continuing…