“Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people’s democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).” AuthoritarianismEastern Europe2003Enemy Of The State Book:The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995 Source: The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995
“No. 2’s infamous opening line is a double gambit: the Village does not really want information, of course, only obedience. (From their point of view, information is an exchange-value, not a use-value). In fact, it is No. 6 who truly wants information: information on who No. 1 is, where the Village really is, which side runs it, and how it might be possible to escape.” Authoritarianism2003The PrisonerNumber 6 Book:The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995 Source: The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995