Johannes Grenzfurthner

"The human is a narrative being. We construct emotional machines, so-called “stories”, to communicate, to share the world in which we live and make it collectively experienceable. And we are pretty goo…"

"If I had not grown up in Stockerau, in the boonies of Lower Austria, than I would not be what I am now. The germ cell of burgeoning nerdism is difference. The yearning to be understood, to find opport…"

"Historically speaking, the first wave of the punk/new wave was primarily a movement of creative abuse of hardly-ever-used consumer media technology. Parents bought expensive equipment like 8-track rec…"

"Jesus died for our SIMMs."

"The Capitalist system is a highly adaptable entity. And so it isn't surprising that alternative spaces and forms of living provided interesting ideas that could be milked and marketed. So certain stru…"

"It's not working from home, it's living at work."

"I always loved the grand dichotomies of life. Dogs and cats. Cats and mice. Like Tom and Jerry. But as someone who grew up in Central Europe I never understood how a mouse can live inside a wall. Wall…"

"I remember when I got a new device for my computer. I connected it to the landline phone plug, and the device called another device and sang a robot love song to it. That made the devices connect, and…"