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A Brief History of Techno-Fascism, 1976-1996

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Earlier this morning I was reading over the liner notes of Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe and she spoke of the potentialities of computers to be “grassroots, almost a folk medium” with a lot of her efforts in 1976 crafting a counter-narrative to the idea that electronics were “inaccessible tools of large bureaucratic systems”. This idea in 2020 is tough to imagine as nearly every piece of technology has been smoothed out so much as to thrive in its inaccessibility. Mediums are now synonymous with their industries. The number of hoops to jump through are so numerous, to reach any form of “success” is virtually unattainable. As much as ‘prosumer’ has entered our lexicon, where many more now having the capabilities to produce what they also consume at a more professional level, most technologies now only exist as a medium towards accessing a pre-defined platform— one that we pseudo-actively engage in, all as a front to either sell server space, ad dollars, or whatever new money m

Earlier this morning I was reading over the liner notes of Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe and she spoke of the potentialities of computers to be “grassroots, almost a folk medium” with a lot of her efforts in 1976 crafting a counter-narrative to the idea that electronics were “inaccessible tools of large bureaucratic systems”. This idea in 2020 is tough to imagine as nearly every piece of technology has been smoothed out so much as to thrive in its inaccessibility. Mediums are now synonymous with their industries. The number of hoops to jump through are so numerous, to reach any form

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