https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&feed=atom&action=history Player Piano - Revision history 2024-03-29T14:13:18Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=19393&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 21:57, 14 September 2023 2023-09-14T21:57:14Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:57, 14 September 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l23" >Line 23:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World|Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World|Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See ''The Expanse'' as [[The Expanse (fiction)|fiction]] and [[The Expanse (TV <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Series</del>)|television]] for more recent handling of automation and labor, in a further-future solar system with too many humans for available jobs.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See ''The Expanse'' as [[The Expanse (fiction)|fiction]] and [[The Expanse (TV <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">series</ins>)|television]] for more recent handling of automation and labor, in a further-future solar system with too many humans for available jobs.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=19392&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 21:56, 14 September 2023 2023-09-14T21:56:15Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:56, 14 September 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l22" >Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World|Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World|Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">See ''The Expanse'' as [[The Expanse (fiction)|fiction]] and [[The Expanse (TV Series)|television]] for more recent handling of automation and labor, in a further-future solar system with too many humans for available jobs.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=19119&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 03:21, 30 July 2023 2023-07-30T03:21:23Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:21, 30 July 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7" >Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Discussed in &quot;[[The Player Piano and Musico-Cybernetic Science Fiction between the 1950s and the 1980s: Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick]],&quot; which see.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Discussed in &quot;[[The Player Piano and Musico-Cybernetic Science Fiction between the 1950s and the 1980s: Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick]],&quot; which see.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Discussed in terms of posthumanism and in dialog with works by J. G. Ballard in Erica Moore's dissertation &quot;[[Practising the Posthumanities: Evolutionary Animals, Machines and the Posthuman in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut]].&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Significantly ''not'' mentioned explicitly, nor is the title nor &quot;Vonnegut&quot; listed in the Index; but you have in chapter 23, &quot;Computers and Art&quot; in O. B. Hardison's ''[[Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century]]'' an observation that parallels a key point in the trial scene in ''Player Piano'': &quot;A definition of what it is to be human is thus an unexpected but provocative by-product of computer art: 'To err is human.' What distinguishes man from machine is the tendency to make mistakes&quot; (Hardison, p. 217).  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Significantly ''not'' mentioned explicitly, nor is the title nor &quot;Vonnegut&quot; listed in the Index; but you have in chapter 23, &quot;Computers and Art&quot; in O. B. Hardison's ''[[Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century]]'' an observation that parallels a key point in the trial scene in ''Player Piano'': &quot;A definition of what it is to be human is thus an unexpected but provocative by-product of computer art: 'To err is human.' What distinguishes man from machine is the tendency to make mistakes&quot; (Hardison, p. 217).  </div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18956&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 22:20, 13 June 2023 2023-06-13T22:20:04Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:20, 13 June 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World|</ins>Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War]]: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18955&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 22:18, 13 June 2023 2023-06-13T22:18:29Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:18, 13 June 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18954&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 22:17, 13 June 2023 2023-06-13T22:17:04Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:17, 13 June 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19" >Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For real-world background, see Michael Lind's updating of James Burnham's ''[[The Managerial Revolution]]'' in his 2020 book ''[[The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite]]''.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Literary Criticism]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Literary Criticism]]</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18461&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 02:26, 3 April 2023 2023-04-03T02:26:56Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:26, 3 April 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l21" >Line 21:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 21:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Fiction]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Literary Criticism]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Literary Criticism]]</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18460&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 02:25, 3 April 2023 2023-04-03T02:25:26Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:25, 3 April 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. ''Player Piano''''' (vt ''Utopia 14''). New York: Scribner's, 1952. New York: Dell, 1974.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. ''Player Piano''''' (vt ''Utopia 14''). New York: Scribner's, 1952. New York: Dell, 1974.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> The near-future world of ''PP'' is run by machines and a technocratic elite, most especially, industrial jobs are done by automated machines. Discussed in ''[[Clockwork Worlds, ed. Erlich &amp; Dunn|Clockwork Worlds]]'' in the essays by [[Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines?|T. Hoffman]] and [[The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano|L. Broer]] (q.v. under Literary Criticism).[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Clockwork_Worlds,_ed._Erlich_%26_Dunn] See for a relatively early work expressing fear of what would be realized in the use of robots and robotics later in the 20th century and into the 21st, expressed by Kurt Vonnegut, who would go on to become a major US author, and one who suggested &quot;the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts,&quot; with artists warning of impending dangers.[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Various_interviews]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> The near-future world of ''PP'' is run by machines <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">— see especially the giant computer, EPICAC — </ins>and a technocratic elite, most especially, industrial jobs are done by automated machines. Discussed in ''[[Clockwork Worlds, ed. Erlich &amp; Dunn|Clockwork Worlds]]'' in the essays by [[Pilgrim's Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines?|T. Hoffman]] and [[The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano|L. Broer]] (q.v. under Literary Criticism).[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Clockwork_Worlds,_ed._Erlich_%26_Dunn] See for a relatively early work expressing fear of what would be realized in the use of robots and robotics later in the 20th century and into the 21st, expressed by Kurt Vonnegut, who would go on to become a major US author, and one who suggested &quot;the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts,&quot; with artists warning of impending dangers.[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Various_interviews]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See Chapter 32 for image of the superimposition of the electronic (and primitively cybernetic?) on the human, specifically the protagonist, Paul Proteus, on trial, hooked up to a very large lie-detection device: &quot;There, beside and above Doctor Paul Proteus, sat the judge — the Sky Manager [from a propaganda playlet], Paul thought. The accused [...] resembled less a man than an old-fashioned switchboard, with wires running from temperature-, pressure-, and moisture-sensitive instruments at his writs, armpits, chest, temples and palms. These, in turn, ran to a gray cabinet under the witness stand, where their findings were interpreted and relayed to a dial a yard in diameter over Paul's head&quot; (pp. 293-94). The lie-detector works, so there is here also a hint of subtle penetration of Paul's brain or psyche.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>See Chapter 32 for image of the superimposition of the electronic (and primitively cybernetic?) on the human, specifically the protagonist, Paul Proteus, on trial, hooked up to a very large lie-detection device: &quot;There, beside and above Doctor Paul Proteus, sat the judge — the Sky Manager [from a propaganda playlet], Paul thought. The accused [...] resembled less a man than an old-fashioned switchboard, with wires running from temperature-, pressure-, and moisture-sensitive instruments at his writs, armpits, chest, temples and palms. These, in turn, ran to a gray cabinet under the witness stand, where their findings were interpreted and relayed to a dial a yard in diameter over Paul's head&quot; (pp. 293-94). The lie-detector works, so there is here also a hint of subtle penetration of Paul's brain or psyche.</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=18052&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 05:39, 20 January 2023 2023-01-20T05:39:58Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:39, 20 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10" >Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Significantly ''not'' mentioned explicitly, nor is the title nor &quot;Vonnegut&quot; listed in the Index; but you have in chapter 23, &quot;Computers and Art&quot; in O. B. Hardison's ''[[Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century]]'' an observation that parallels a key point in the trial scene in ''Player Piano'': &quot;A definition of what it is to be human is thus an unexpected but provocative by-product of computer art: 'To err is human.' What distinguishes man from machine is the tendency to make mistakes&quot; (Hardison, p. 217).  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Significantly ''not'' mentioned explicitly, nor is the title nor &quot;Vonnegut&quot; listed in the Index; but you have in chapter 23, &quot;Computers and Art&quot; in O. B. Hardison's ''[[Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century]]'' an observation that parallels a key point in the trial scene in ''Player Piano'': &quot;A definition of what it is to be human is thus an unexpected but provocative by-product of computer art: 'To err is human.' What distinguishes man from machine is the tendency to make mistakes&quot; (Hardison, p. 217).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Increasingly relevant again as made clear in another work that doesn't mention it, Buchanan and Imbrie's ''[[The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI]]''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Increasingly relevant again as made clear in another work that doesn't mention it, Buchanan and Imbrie's ''[[The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]''. See also Bernard Gendron's ''[[Technology and the Human Condition</ins>]]''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>++++++++++++++++++</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>++++++++++++++++++</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Player_Piano&diff=17144&oldid=prev Erlichrd at 05:06, 7 June 2022 2022-06-07T05:06:30Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:06, 7 June 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l16" >Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From Heather Hick's Note 3, pp. 210-11, in Chapter 1, &quot;'No Good to Anybody'&quot; in her study, ''[[The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative]]''.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From Heather Hick's Note 3, pp. 210-11, in Chapter 1, &quot;'No Good to Anybody'&quot; in her study, ''[[The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative]]''.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;blockquote&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;blockquote&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Howard P. Segal provides the most comprehensive exploration of ''Player Piano''’s relation to both the dystopian and utopian traditions in “[[Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia|[Kurt] Vonnegut’s ''Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia'',” ''[[No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction]]'', ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983), 162–181. Briefer assessments of Vonnegut’s relation to these movements, with particular emphasis on his debt to [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Orwell]], [[We|Zamyatin]], and [[Brave New World|Huxley]], also appear in Leonard Mustazza, “The Machine Within: Mechanization, Human Discontent, and the Genre of Vonnegut’s ''Player Piano'',” ''Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature'' 25 (1989): 99–113;[https://www.proquest.com/openview/46178a0552ff8b44345584bd4193323d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=1816590] [and] David Y. Hughes, “The Ghost in the Machine: The Theme of Player Piano,” ''America as Utopia'', ed. Kenneth M. Roemer (New York: Burt Franklin, 1981), 108–114;[http://arus.letras.up.pt/handle/123456789/105312] [...]. Hughes offers the most thorough catalog of ''Player Piano''’s allusions to [[Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine|Norbert Wiener’s work on cybernetics]] (n. 4, 113). Schatt and Segal along with [...] Thomas P. Hoffman (“[[The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano]],” ''[[Clockwork Worlds, ed. Erlich &amp; Dunn|Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF]]'', ed. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas B. Dunn [Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983], 125–135), [also] decode Vonnegut’s allusions to Greek mythology. [...]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Howard P. Segal provides the most comprehensive exploration of ''Player Piano''’s relation to both the dystopian and utopian traditions in “[[Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia|[Kurt] Vonnegut’s ''Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>,” ''[[No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction]]'', ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983), 162–181. Briefer assessments of Vonnegut’s relation to these movements, with particular emphasis on his debt to [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Orwell]], [[We|Zamyatin]], and [[Brave New World|Huxley]], also appear in Leonard Mustazza, “The Machine Within: Mechanization, Human Discontent, and the Genre of Vonnegut’s ''Player Piano'',” ''Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature'' 25 (1989): 99–113;[https://www.proquest.com/openview/46178a0552ff8b44345584bd4193323d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&amp;cbl=1816590] [and] David Y. Hughes, “The Ghost in the Machine: The Theme of Player Piano,” ''America as Utopia'', ed. Kenneth M. Roemer (New York: Burt Franklin, 1981), 108–114;[http://arus.letras.up.pt/handle/123456789/105312] [...]. Hughes offers the most thorough catalog of ''Player Piano''’s allusions to [[Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine|Norbert Wiener’s work on cybernetics]] (n. 4, 113). Schatt and Segal along with [...] Thomas P. Hoffman (“[[The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano]],” ''[[Clockwork Worlds, ed. Erlich &amp; Dunn|Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF]]'', ed. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas B. Dunn [Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983], 125–135), [also] decode Vonnegut’s allusions to Greek mythology. [...]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd