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    Thursday, February 02, 2006
     Technology and Its Mediated Use
    From Raoul Vanegeim, "The Revolution of Everyday Life", 1967:

    Far from being punished for its Promethean aspirations, [technological organization] is dying because it never escaped from the dialectic of master and slave. Even if the cybernauts did come to power they would have a hard time staying there. Their complacent vision for their own rosy future calls for a retort along the lines of these words from a black worker to a white boss: "When we first saw yor trucks and planes we thought you were gods. Then, after a few years, we learned how to drive your trucks, as we shall soon learn how to fly your planes, and we understood that what interested you most was manufacturing trucks and planes and making money. For our part, what we are interested in is using them. Now, you are just our blacksmiths."

    Old revolutionary politics + new tech = new media. The Situationists weren't around for the internet but their politics were...

    Posted by Eryk @ 10:51 AM

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