Johannes Grenzfurthner

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

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

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

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.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Imagination is an abuse of power.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

The great gender unifier is your asshole.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

I always wonder what the official web site of the GDR would look like if they were still around. Would they use Flash? Or HTML5?

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Long time ago I called the greasy stuff on touch displays "hackerfat"... but it's better to change that to "socialsmear".

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

I blame society for Zack Snyder's career.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

I always loved the grand dichotomies of life. Dogs and cats. Cats and mice. Like Tom and Jerry. But as someone who grew up in Central Europe I never understood how a mouse can live inside a wall. Walls are made of bricks! They are not hollow. Way later I came to understand, when I learned that US-American houses are just made of wood, and their walls are really hollow.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. So it's never old news to deal with the intersection of human desire and ingenuity. As biohacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and the plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, we explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Rammstein is an award-winning music-based German-teaching system for American goths.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Dreamt I had a meeting with the Austrian Film Institute about a grant. They told me I would never get one, but I should try insurance fraud.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

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.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

Leftist memes are 25 pages long and have footnotes. (Original German: Linke Memes sind 25 Seiten lang und haben Fußnoten.)

— Johannes Grenzfurthner