Heartbeat Detector (Klotz, 2008)

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.” (Transmission – Joy Division) The title Heartbeat Detector is an awkward anglicizing of Klotz’ La question humaine that draws attention away from his abstract universalizing of the tendency towards dehumanization that lay at the root of all Third Reich scheming. The English title refers to technology used by the Nazis during the Final Solution (like a much scarier version of Anton Chigurh’s homing device). It... Read More