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Imagination is an abuse of power.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Historically speaking, the first wave of the punk/new wave (approximately 1976-1983) was primarily a movement of creative abuse of hardly-ever-used consumer media technology. Parents (usually technophile Baby boomer dads) bought expensive equipment like 8-track recorders, Super-8 and Polaroid cameras and later VHS camcorders and only used it to "document" birthday parties and other eminently boring ceremonies. But the rebellious teens found interesting new things to do with the dust-collecting media tech, and it started one of the biggest DIY revolutions of the 20th century. So punk (years before cyperpunk) was a movement of youngsters goofing around with (aka appropriating) consumer tech.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
I remember when I got a new device for my computer. I connected it to the landline phone plug(!), and the device called another device and sang a robot love song to it. That made the devices connect, and I could go online and exchange messages. That was one of the most important things that ever happened to me, breaking my isolation. It helped me to reach out to other folks all around the globe. Communication is key in nerd culture. But beware if that communication fails. You can create toxic troll wastelands! Not even robot love songs can help you with that!
Johannes Grenzfurthner
A guy once screamed "Rammstein is fascist" in my face. I screamed "Laibach have seen better days!"
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Hasta la victoria siempre! Never forget! And let anthropomorphized kiwis puke evil provitamins on Jean-Luc Picard!
Johannes Grenzfurthner
The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Everything in German sounds like a war crime. And everything in Austrian German sounds like a war crime served with whipped cream.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Whenever I go to a botanical garden, I think of killing people with a spade.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Christianity is a death cult gone horribly wrong.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
The great gender unifier is your asshole.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
If I had not grown up in Stockerau, in the boonies of Lower Austria, than I would not be what I am now. The germ cell of burgeoning nerdism is difference. The yearning to be understood, to find opportunities to share experiences, to not be left alone with one's bizarre interest. At the same time one derives an almost perverse pleasure from wallowing in this deficit. Nerds love deficiency: that of the other, but also their own. Nerds are eager explorers, who enjoy measuring themselves against one another and also compete aggressively. And yet the nerd's existence also comprises an element of the occult, of mystery. The way in which this power is expressed or focused is very important.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Oh, Tolkien, that miserable Catholic. He even hated refrigerators. A technophobic academic who probable would have fucked Ireland, if Ireland were fuckable.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Don't cry for me, cry for Argentina!
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Sometimes I surprise myself with my own face.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Conspiracy theories (actually: hypotheses) are comforting, anthropocentric, affirming constructs. They assume that someone runs the world, that someone is in control. The sad truth is that nobody is in control. That's way more terrifying.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Monotheism is a dictatorship. The number of the beast is 1.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Did you know that if you removed all nerve cells from your brain and laid them out end-to-end in a straight line, you would die?
Johannes Grenzfurthner
I always loved the grand dichotomies of life. Dogs and cats. Cats and mice. Like Tom and Jerry. But as someone who grew up in Central Europe I never understood how a mouse can live inside a wall. Walls are made of bricks! They are not hollow. Way later I came to understand, when I learned that US-American houses are just made of wood, and their walls are really hollow.
Johannes Grenzfurthner
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