from the archives:
ON TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY
Lev Manovich, 03.04.1996
... as a post-communist subject, I cannot but see Internet as a communal
apartment of Stalin era: no privacy, everybody spies on everybody else,
always present line for common areas such as the toilet or the kitchen.
Or I can think of it as a giant garbage site for the information
society, with everybody dumping their used products of intellectual
labor and nobody cleaning up. Or as a new, Mass Panopticum (which was
already realized in communist societies) - complete transparency,
everybody can track everybody else. ...
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2062/1.html
(ps: von der SU lernen, heisst siegen lernen?)
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