Technology and Knowledge in a Universe of Indetermination

I. Leninism Cannot Explain the Metropolis

Hans Jürgen Krahl died one evening in 1970, in a car accident. He was not yet 30, but he was already one of the most influential thinkers of the German anti-authoritarian movement, which had exploded in the streets in 1967, when, in the course of an anti-imperialist demonstration against the Shah of Iran, a 26 years-old-student, Behnno Onesorg, had been killed by the police. The movement had spread rapidly among the students, who were fighting for the democratization of German society [End Page 57] while protesting against the Vietnam War and denouncing, sometimes with clamorous activities, the media intoxication produced by the newspapers belonging to the Springer group.