Johannes is quite a character, being a key figure in such famous nonsense as the annual Robot Cocktail festival, and this will be excellent.<br><br>(the jargon in the flyer is ironic, btw.)<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------
<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">das ende der nahrungskette</b> <<a href="mailto:jg@monochrom.at">jg@monochrom.at</a>><br>Date: Jun 28, 2007 6:08 AM<br>Subject: "The Innermost Unifier" / Corporate Anthems
<br>To: <a href="mailto:paulm@paulm.com">paulm@paulm.com</a><br><br></span>
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hey paul!<br><br>
here is the invitation for my lecture/audio presentation about corporate
anthems in front of the ibm building in london on monday...<br>
do you know any people who could be interested in such a thing? please
pass it on!<br><br>
all the best<br>
johannes<br><br>
<br>
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http://www.monochrom.at/english/2007/06/monochrom-in-london-innermost-unifier.htm<br>
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</a><b>The Innermost Unifier: Today it's the Corporate Anthem<br>
</b>A talk/audio performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom
(Vienna, Austria)<br><br>
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!).<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Come and sing along. Powernapping is welcome, too.<br><br>
<b>When, where?<br>
</b>July 2, 2007.<br>
The talk is part of a public space tour called "Peripatetic
disco" (<a href="http://www.altspace.info/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">alt.SPACE Festival
2007</a>). 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
(<a href="http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/locations/sbnk.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">directions to IBM
South Bank</a>). <br><br>
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