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“The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape.”

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at Hope Conference http://thenexthope.org/talks-list/ 2010 in NYC, talking about the necessity to deconstruct the patriarchal structures of Western society

“There are still films about bank robberies, but let's be honest, the biggest financial crimes today aren't happening in banks, they're happening on Wall Street. This is happening in the completely abstract datasphere. Capitalism is dependent upon this commodity of speed. Making a film about a bank robbery is maybe funny, but it's completely anachronistic. We have to tell the stories of the 21st century, specifically in a way that people can relate to it.”

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via Futurezone https://futurezone.at/english/sierra-zulu-draws-attention-to-soviet-austria/24.578.924

“Everything in German sounds like a war crime. And everything in Austrian German sounds like a war crime served with whipped cream.”

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from documentary Traceroute

“The information age is an age of permanently getting stuck. Greater and greater speed is demanded. New software, new hardware, new structures, new cultural techniques. Life-long learning? Yes. But the company can't fire the secretary every six months, just because she can't cope with the new version of Excel. They can count their keystrokes, measure their productivity … but! They will never be able to sanction their inability! Because that is immanent.”

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Minus 24x http://www.monochrom.at/minus24x/index-eng.htm, 2001

“Whenever I go to a botanical garden, I think of killing people with a spade.”

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from documentary Traceroute

“Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox.”

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lecture performance at CMU Pittsburgh, 2016.

“Christianity is a death cult gone horribly wrong.”

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from documentary Traceroute

“The emergence of new media (and therefore artistic) formats is certainly interesting. But etching information into copper plates is just as exciting. We think that the perpetual return of 'the new', to cite Walter Benjamin, is nothing to write home about - except perhaps for the slave-drivers in the fashion industry. We've never been interested in the new just in itself, but in the accidental occurrence. In the moment where things don't tally, where productive confusion arises. That's why in the final analysis, although we've laughed a lot with Stewart Home, we even reject the meta-criticism of innovation-fixation articulated in 'neoism.”

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The new sorts itself out when it lands in the museum. Finito.
Interview on Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/interview-johannes-grenzfurthner-monochrom-part-3

“The great gender unifier is your asshole.”

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Interview in "Neon" http://blog.neon.de/2014/04/sex-pornografie-haben-schon-immer-technische-innovationen-gefordert/, 2014

“Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.”

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from a talk given at Arse Elektronika http://monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/ 2010

“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 opportunities to share experiences, to not be left alone with one's bizarre interest. At the same time one derives an almost perverse pleasure from wallowing in this deficit. Nerds love deficiency: that of the other, but also their own. Nerds are eager explorers, who enjoy measuring themselves against one another and also compete aggressively. And yet the nerd's existence also comprises an element of the occult, of mystery. The way in which this power is expressed or focused is very important.”

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via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/04/14/the-story-of-traceroute-about.html

“Since the advent of modernism, artists have been seeking to loosen the entanglement of work and subject, because they saw themselves pushed into a role that they did not necessarily want to occupy: one which offered freedom and independence on the upside, but in combination with isolation and powerlessness on the downside. While the workers of the Fordist factory developed collectivist strategies to pursue their goals, the particularities of the artist's existence – cast as productive eccentricity and manic-depressive individualism – made it more difficult for artists to organize to achieve their demands and improve their precarious living and working conditions. It was only with great difficulty that this group, condemned to autonomy, could free itself from the prison of its freedom.”

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via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/04/14/the-story-of-traceroute-about.html

“Oh, Tolkien, that miserable Catholic. He even hated refrigerators. A technophobic academic who probable would have fucked Ireland, if Ireland were fuckable.”

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via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/04/14/the-story-of-traceroute-about.html

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

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via FB https://www.facebook.com/grenzfurthner/posts/10158773667254610

“Is Corona laboratory-made? Nah. I think it's way more reasonable to assume that a bat fucked a pangolin. And some guy then fucked that pangolin. Mystery solved. Occam's razor.”

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73rd Communique of the CPSUZoeD https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000116238563/
Quotes as Nikita P. Chrusov

“After the Soviet Union turned into many, many little non-Soviet countries... it was crazy. It was like a lot of pop-ups on Firefox, and you try to click them away, but it doesn't work!”

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73rd Communique of the CPSUZoeD https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000116238563/
Quotes as Nikita P. Chrusov

“Don't cry for me, cry for Argentina!”

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73rd Communique of the CPSUZoeD https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000116238563/
Quotes as Nikita P. Chrusov

“Sometimes I surprise myself with my own face.”

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Source: Quote from his comedy lecture "Schicksalsjahre eines Nerds" https://www.rabenhoftheater.com/archiv-saison-2014-2015/schicksalsjahre-eines-nerds/ (2014)