Sunday, 31 July 2016

pokemon go modernism constant babylon

Quote from Srečko Horvat`s article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/25/pokemon-go-silicon-valley-reality

"The problem is not technology or innovation, the problem is monopoly capitalism: the fact that all this power is concentrated in a few companies from Silicon Valley, who openly want to create a brave new world in which technology only serves profit. While we’re all busy playing Pokémon, the companies are following the game’s advice – “Gotta catch ‘em all”. Only, its us being captured in an inescapable web of technological consumerism."

At this point I recall a work by Constant called New Babylon. Which was a utopia project. As I understand the idea was to enable the people leisure activities in a new city as machines are doing all the work. A kind of city - amusement park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Babylon_(Constant_Nieuwenhuys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkmk8Xdz9Ps

Now this can only partly become true, as the modernistic ideal (machines doing all the unqualified work) failed... but now with Pokemon GO, paradoxically, all places became potential amusement parks.

http://nostalgiaforthefutures.blogspot.rs/2012/12/to-control-and-shape-entire-social.html



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