[Events] "The Innermost Unifier" / Corporate Anthems @ 2007-07-02

[Paul Makepeace]

Johannes is quite a character, being a key figure in such famous nonsense as
the annual Robot Cocktail festival, and this will be excellent.

(the jargon in the flyer is ironic, btw.)

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From: das ende der nahrungskette <jg at monochrom.at>
Date: Jun 28, 2007 6:08 AM
Subject: "The Innermost Unifier" / Corporate Anthems
To: paulm at paulm.com

 hey paul!

here is the invitation for my lecture/audio presentation about corporate
anthems in front of the ibm building in london on monday...
do you know any people who could be interested in such a thing? please pass
it on!

all the best
johannes


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http://www.monochrom.at/english/2007/06/monochrom-in-london-innermost-unifier.htm

*The Innermost Unifier: Today it's the Corporate Anthem
*A talk/audio performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom (Vienna,
Austria)

The advancement of pre-capitalism (ie. the form of organisation for the
social production of goods and of its distribution) to post-capitalism (ie.
the form of organisation for all social relations in a particular economical
ideology) is seldomly as apparent as in a modern company or enterprise, the
most dominant type of organisation of the post-capitalist endeavor. The
company has taken the place once inhibited by the factory. The factory
thrived on the opposites of worker and owner. The modern company, however,
is built around the core-idea of the post-antagonostic concept of work
itself. The employees have become co- and sub-entrepreneurs. Yet of course
they are not, which becomes evident when looking at who actually owns the
means of production within the company. The employees however are being
turned onto the illusion of being an active part, even a decision-making
part of the "big family" (I love this company!).
The modern company wants to return to the pre-capitalist crisis of
class-struggle. That means: Contradictions within, and indeed clashes of
interest take a step back behind the curtain of the "community". (A visit at
the Google Campus in Silicon Valley illustrates this concept drastically).
The return to old ideas of community also brings with it certain forms of
rituals, like the usage of a corporate anthem. But there is no right
feel-good in something that is wrong.
Using different historical and current examples (especially from the area of
the hardware/software-industry), Johannes Grenzfurthner gives a theoretical
and applied - and not unamusing - overview on the musical genre of corporate
anthems.
Come and sing along. Powernapping is welcome, too.

*When, where?
*July 2, 2007.
The talk is part of a public space tour called "Peripatetic disco" (alt.SPACE
Festival 2007 <http://www.altspace.info/>). Meeting point for the whole tour
is 4 PM in front of the main gates of Buckingham Palace. Johannes
Grenzfurthner's talk and audio show will start 5 PM in front of IBM South
Bank (directions to IBM South
Bank<http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/locations/sbnk.html>).


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