Weight: 480 grams, dimensions: 210 x 135 x 30 mm What have Furtwangen, Berlin and New York have in common? Nothing? But! It is each time staging of "digital bohemians", a new social class. At least if you Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo believes.
You could tell the story like a fairy tale: Once there was a small group of people who did not have much other than their brains and their creativity. Oscar Wilde was not one of you, but it could have been the inspiration for the motto of the classic bohemian in Paris or London. When he arrived to America, he announced on duty: "I have nothing to declare, but my genious". These brilliant people came together and tried working in cafes, art and life to connect to a single concept. Unfortunately, this was only a few, but we now appreciate their pictures and books. These people and their alternative, independent way of life have shaped the culture of the West strong, although not nearly all lived like it: Most people, however, were conformists, always in search of security and good interest on their savings account. The bohemian but dreaming of more: "It is (...) about not only to live as you want, but to work, and want to live as one, while no compromises, and to brook no delay."
In the already well-known book by Friebe and Lobo traced the long way from traditional to digital Bohème Bohème. The new bohemians (as the old) usually located in large cities, the chief editor of the Berlin city magazine Zitty with the real (?) With Mercedes Bunz, this group once called "Urban Penner. An exception is Furtwangen secure. They are the IT and web specialists who work on projects linked to their lives even one Project, a constant struggle for attention in the network (Twitter, blogs), and the beat with difficulty but introduces its Employee-free life.
You could also tell the story differently: It is the postapokalytische (Grace Jones) version of a resurrection from the crisis. Since the 1980s in the industrial society go the jobs lost, people from once secure life and working conditions "set free". This is reminiscent of Jean Paul Sartre existence-philosophical approach, as he in his major work Being and Nothingness "is brought to the point:" Man is condemned to freedom ". The only problem is that most can not handle this freedom. Nevertheless, the digital bohemians looking for exactly this freedom. Jeremy Rifkin has in 1995 in his famous book "The End of Work" describes what to expect now becoming increasingly clear to us: Increased automation, streamlining and digitizing replaced human labor. People are "unnecessary" or "excluded" as the sociologist Heinz Bude, it pointed out. Rifkin looked at new elite on the horizon, the "symbol analyst". This term is borrowed from Robert B. Reich , a political science professor who was once secretary of state under Bill Clinton.
symbol analysts are people who can deal with codes (software, text, images). In Furtwangen be formed mainly just this symbol analysts. These codes are increasingly central to modern society, because it's about less and less to make products, but marketing ideas. Exactly these mechanisms marketing of intelligent software solutions and creative websites describe Friebe and praise from their own (Berlin) practice. You dröseln to some company diagnoses and then deal in great detail and rich experience with the various components of the digital economy, digital culture and digital life.
Like the old bohemian also try to bring it all together. And to be realistic: the "roving form of livelihood," symbolize the members of the digital Bohème is for them a sort of beta version of the always precarious living conditions of most (creative) people. Project Broken promises life but independence and autonomy, but also has disadvantages: contingency and decision-pressure, personal responsibility and self motivation are not innate in any / all. The "Life in the subjunctive Futur" (the title of a chapter) is just too exhausting. But we have a choice.
Contribution to the future of humanity: book and website show that one can be mistaken with much effort. Most people long (then as now) not for autonomy, but for orientation.
Holm Friebe & Sascha Lobo: We call it work. The digital bohemians or intelligent life beyond the permanent position. 2007 (5th edition). Heyne: Munich. ISBN 978-3-453-12092-1
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