Yesterday’s futures are already a thing of the past today, and yet the visions of the future still reverberate. Steve Tupai Francis‘ exploration of Kraftwerk’s 1981 album »Computer World« brings it into the context of posthumanism, cybernetics and cultural anthropology in this, as usual, slim yet dense volume from Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series. The central theme he identifies in the seven pieces, which were as seminal (»Numbers«!) as they were prescient (»Computer Love«!), is that of transition, of the passage between different states as much as the change that accompanies it. Kristoffer Cornils
Steve Tupai Francis – Computer World
