From bb6e6280dc9580badde704ecdccd146abbe42832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sdbs Terra Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:52:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Automatic update, changed: incubation.generationZ.md --- pages/incubation.generationZ.md | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pages/incubation.generationZ.md b/pages/incubation.generationZ.md index cc5030b..571e3a9 100644 --- a/pages/incubation.generationZ.md +++ b/pages/incubation.generationZ.md @@ -14,4 +14,45 @@ - https://techpeterburg.wixsite.com/mysite/post/sound-in-z-forgotten-experiments-in-sound-and-electronic-music-in-early-20th-century-russia - https://www.randform.org/blog/?p=5531 -#cyber #cyborg \ No newline at end of file +#cyber #cyborg + +THE CENT R AL INSTITUTE +OF LABOU R ( CIT ) +The Central Institute of Labour (Tsentralny Institut Truda – CIT) was founded +by Alexey Gastev in Moscow in 1920 and supported by Lenin. + +In his institute, Gastev investigated the functions of certain operational com- +plexes that encompass both worker and machine in a single, unbroken chain: +»These machine-human complexes also produce the synthesis between bi- +ology and engineering that we are constantly cultivating. And the integrated, +calculated incorporation of determinate human masses into a system of +mechanisms will be nothing other than social engineering.« + +According to CIT methodology, every physical motion of cadets was precisely +planned and assessed so that by the end of training, full automatism could +be achieved. The human body was to become a machine. Gastev declared: +»We start from the most primitive, the most elementary movements and pro- +duce the mechanization of man himself […] The perfect mastery of a given +movement implies the maximum degree of automaticity. If this maximum +increases […] nervous energy would be freed for new initiating stimuli, and +the power of an individual would grow indefinitely.« + +CIT was an unusual institution that was frequented by fanatical old inven- +tors and fascinated teenagers alike. Alongside the physiological laboratory, +there were labs for sensorics, psychotechnics and education. A variety of +multimedia tools and interactive gadgets were devised, including instruments +for photography and film, systems for monitoring musical performances and +instructorless simulation apparatus for cars and planes. It was scientific +research with an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging agenda. + +In the mid-1920s, one of the CIT departments was Solomon Nikritin’s Pro- +jection Theatre, a testing ground for the development of the ideal »Man of +the Future.« In 1928, Gastev organized the Ustanovka (Setup) joint-stock +company, which audited the work of industrial enterprises and provided +recommendations on the efficient organization of their work processes on +a commercial basis, which led to complete financial independence of CIT +from the state. Although by the late 1930s, CIT had produced over 500,000 +qualified workers in 200 professions and 20,000 industrial trainers in 1,700 +educational centres, the totalitarian State was not interested in the creation +of a network of socially engineered Cyborgs with liberated minds. In 1938, +the institute was finally closed. \ No newline at end of file