communism
Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
There’s a prevalent notion throughout techno and house music of human beings becoming well-oiled machines, or even merging with machines, a vision in keeping with Kraftwerk’s utopian Man Machine futurism or the dignified Soviet toil of Dziga Vertov’s The Man With a Movie Camera.
‘The Greengrocer and His TV’ Is About the Politics of Television: Czechoslovakia, Circa 1968
Paulina Bren’s The Green Grocer and His TV filters the culture of Czechoslovakian communism post-1968 through the television sets that were burgeoning in popularity during this period.