Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gfk Entertainment Charts, Iron Maiden, R.U.R.
11 Nov 2014
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Blue champagne: cyborg lives - sept 23, 2014. How the human becomes an extension of a machine. Ford assembly line transformed from a static assembly line into a moving assembly line; parts would be brought right to the person (flow. There has been a fundamental shift, revolution, in understanding human labour - separates his scheme from other efficiency schemes. Humans now take second place to the machine - job is to serve to the machine. In order for there to be full efficiency you must organize around the machines, not around the people. Modernism was concerned about the position of the human in this new world. Karel apek, czech, wrote a play called r. u. r. (rossum"s universal robots) about a robotized system of labour. In 1926 fritz lang made metropolis - standard entry point into modernism for many. What happens to workers mentally and physically. Fear of what will happen to the human worker.
