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RENOISE:Generation Z

Sound in Z - chapter: machine worshippers p.131

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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 Nikritins 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.

ORDER 05 Funeral rites at the cemetery of planets. A howl in the catacomb of worlds. Millions, into the manhole of the future. Billions, weapons stronger. Labour camp of the mind. Chains of the heart. Engineer Everyman. Drive geometry into their necks. Logarithms into their gestures. Defile their romanticism. Tons of indignation. Normalize the word from pole to pole. Phrases on the decimal system. A boiler company for speech. Annihilate verbality. Make the tunnels resound. Turn the sky red for arousal. Gears—at superspeed. Brain machines—high load. Cinema eyes—fix. Electric nerves—to work. Arterial pumps, activate. Alexei Gastev. 192122

The totalitarian State of the 1930s was opposed to the creation of an anarchical network of socially engineered Cyborgs with liberated minds. In 1938 Alexei Gastev was arrested on false charges of counter-revolutionary terrorist activity and sentenced to death by a speedy trial; his institute was closed. On 15 April 1939 Gastev was shot to death in the suburbs of Moscow.