#totalitarianist

[thedystopia101]

[ and we are the children of the war ]

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[ photo via pinterest ]

[thedystopia101]

[we’ve grown up so fast that we’ve forgotten how to be children]

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[not my photo. credit to owner]

[chinmay-bct]

The Choker | Exploring similarity between Programming language and Totalitarianism.

I thought of making a poster based on my frustration of learning programming, and for this I had a special thought in mind. The underlaying concept is based on of “Totalitarianism” / stalinism, it’s often associated with communism, a regime where the state holds power while the people live in despair and can’t really “ID” themselves as individuals but as a mass of people. The idea of Totalitarianism has often been in movies and popular novels such as 1984 by George Orwell, where computers have been depicted as prime-evil tool for governments to control people and institutions to monitor them, hence the red colour. The colour red is often also used to show passion or pain, a concept originally explored in the early baroque paintings of the 17th century. The colour sums up these two themes perfectly in the design of the poster, the Totalitarianism (big brother) of coding languages, and the passion/ pain of having to learn it.

The long stretched curved lines, which some would say depicts the neural links within the computer, represents an elongated stretched neck, that’s choking with the complexity of digesting numbers and codes, whilst being shadowed by more information in the cloud with red.

Why the minimalist design: because it linked back to that idea of the communist regime, living the life under the code, a simple life without leisure of desires. Programming language are same in someways, they’re simply made up of the letters, numbers and characters use by writers and literalist, but it’s the way they’re REQUIRED to be put together to form a ‘code’ which make them different expressionism from communism. Coding languages won’t tell you exactly what’s wrong, they’ll simply give you vague “errors”, you have to know what did wrong or figure it out your-self, unlike literature it only has one way of expression, if the language is expressed in the wrong way the ‘code’ won’t form. And it’s all of these idea which makes it a Totalitarianist idea.