TECHNICAL CULTURE MANIFESTO by C.U.K.T
C.U.K.T-Technical Culture Central Office (Poland)
technical
culture is the whole of machine and human work, collected, stored and continually
enriched; the level of development of societies, groups and units in a given
era, conditioned by the degree of mastering the human factor, by the state of
knowledge and creativity and by the degree of co-existence of humans and machines.
technical culture is characterised by objectivity, professionalism, standarization,
measurement and progress.
in
a culture where the machine with its impersonal and endlessly repeated operations
is considered as the tool of progress, subjectivity becomes a thing principally
unaccepted.
technical
culture functions on a mathematical level and is based on the possibility of
translation of everything into numbers.
extreme
subjectivism gives rise to the need for creation of objectivity as fiction.
mathematization
of reality consists in exchanging of facts into statistical data and problems
into equations.
objectivity
explains the fiction of facts.
technical
culture is a system of information flow.
the
motor of technical culture is economy.
objective
measurement, classification and archivization create documents.
technical
culture is mass culture. documents create fictitious objectivity.
the
most efficient economy is the one which perceives humans as markets.
document
is a subjective fact.
statistics
is the most popular and the most efficient science.
technical
culture art is manipulating of information.
what
cannot be measured does not exist or has no value at all.
the
aspect of interpersonal relations which would not undergo technicization and
in result would not be subject to professional control does not exist.
the
degree of indispensability of electricity needed to produce an art work is an
idicator of technical culture art.
the
cult of technology is a sign of lack of technical culture.
in
technical culture the avant-garde does not exist, classics does not exist, selective
or popular art does not exist- the only criterion of value is speed and scope
of influence and the efficiency on the cybermarket.
technical
culture is a system of information control.
creation
and distribution of information is the basis of power. secrecy makes information
more powerful.
uncontrolled
information may be deadly.
technology
makes information shorter.
in
technical culture existent theories do not engage in the issue of accepting
or denying a piece of information of moral reasons.
efficiency,
profit and economic progress replace morality.
information
is a thing one can buy and sell irrespective of its use and importance.
whether
information is important or not is of no importance.
information
is endowed with importance by institutions: religions, families, schools, offices,
courts, the state.
technical
culture art is a projection of the consciousness onto the omnisensual hallucination
of the matrix.
powerful
and complex organizations are a visible sign of advanced technology to the same
extent as machines are.
technical
culture central office is: a perfectly co-ordinated series of techniques serving
to reduce information, which need processing.
striving
for the most rational usage of information C.U.K.T. ignores all information
and ideas which do not increase office efficiency.
C.U.K.T.
officials consider the results of their decisions solely to the extent to which
they influence the efficiency of actions and they do not take over the responsibility
for the human-type consequences.
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