Paul Feigelfeld: The Dork Enlightenment. Technology and Fascism; why Art is responsible; and how it can respond

The proximity between the tech industry and authoritarian politics cannot be explained by ideology alone. This lecture reads it as a question of architecture. It asks which theories, forms and images prepared this proximity and made it thinkable. One line runs from German media theory through Nick Land and neoreaction to Silicon Valley. Another reaches back to the avant-gardes that anticipated the rituals of fascism. What art has to answer for, and what it can do about it, emerges from historical strata between Futurism and post-internet art and from the counter-strata of cyberfeminism. Countercultural techniques are already being developed, but this has to be a shared effort.