Mit der Technik tanzen

Technokörper im Berlin der frühen Neunziger Jahre

Abstract

English abstract: The article investigates how technology, especially music, was used to produce specific bodies in the Berlin Techno scene after the fall of the wall. It argues that dancing was a mode of appropriating technology, as not only music but also visual effects affected bodies. The article describes three configurations of the techno body: the desiring body, the exhausted body, and the connected body. Rather than seeking to unveil the naïveté of a search for liberated bodies, the article suggests that Techno allowed protagonists to experiment with the body and thereby to produce new and exciting bodies. In that sense, the article traces the potentialities of using technologies to affect and produce historically specific bodies.