Folklore Institute

Every drone video is also a de facto display of military capabilities. This is what Siegfried Kracauer, a Marxist writer living in Wiemar Germany, and others have called “the dual face of modernity”. In May of 1930, in an essay titled “Organized Happiness: On the Reopening of the Lunapark”, originally published in the Frankfurter Zeitung, Kracauer describes the mechanism of a roller coaster at an upper class amusement park. As the roller coaster cart cranks upward, reaching the top of its track before the inevitable drop, Kracauer is able to peak over the walls of the park. For a brief moment, he can see the skyline of the city of Berlin and witnesses its expansive ghettos and industrial workhouses. It dawns on him that the same mechanisms present in the roller coaster track are also at work in the factory assembly lines outside the park.

Every drone video is also a de facto display of military capabilities. This is what Siegfried Kracauer, a Marxist writer living in Wiemar Germany, and others have called “the dual face of modernity”. In May of 1930, in an essay titled “Organized Happiness: On the Reopening of the Lunapark”, originally published in the Frankfurter Zeitung, Kracauer describes the mechanism of a roller coaster at an upper class amusement park. As the roller coaster cart cranks upward, reaching the top of its track before the inevitable drop, Kracauer is able to peak over the walls of the park. For a brief moment, he can see the skyline of the city of Berlin and witnesses its expansive ghettos and industrial workhouses. It dawns on him that the same mechanisms present in the roller coaster track are also at work in the factory assembly lines outside the park.

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wow, this is deep stuff! never thought about drones like that. kracauer's view on modernity is mind-blowing. thanks for sharing!