[rohrpost] "I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can't fall in love"

[das ende der nahrungskette]

A talk (with examples) by monochrom, presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner

@ 24C3, Berlin/Berliner Congress Center; Thursday, December 27, midnight.

Bourgeois culture was paralyzed and finally 
overrun by modern technologies which broke 
through the traditional class barriers. It went 
into a panic and produced these very stupid 
technophobic manifestos and images e.g. of "the 
computer". Pop music discovered and explored the 
computer not only as a musical instrument but 
also as something to sing and reflect about in a 
less aversive way. In doing so it influenced the 
conception people had of computers. The public 
image of computers was shaped by groups such as 
Kraftwerk as well as through obscure Schlager 
songs such as France Gall's "Computer No. 3". Not 
only was that image influenced by high culture 
computer panic but also by naïve technomania, and 
so it delivered the very dialectics of the 
computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.

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