Kling, Marc-Uwe
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1982- ) German singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and author, active from around 2003; he is of interest for his first novel, QualityLand (2017; trans Jamie Lee Searle 2020), a vaudeville-like Satire of the Near Future Media Landscape, focused upon a Dystopian region called QualityLand where universal surveillance capitalism, augmented by some advanced Technology, governs all. Citizens whose vestigial uniqueness may violate corporate "analytics", which is to say they are insufficiently fungible, are likely to be sued, presumably for the sin of privacy. An election between a right-wing demagogue and a left-wing Android seems unlikely to change anything for the better. [JC]
Marc-Uwe Kling
born Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: 1982
works (selected)
- QualityLand (Berlin: Ullstein, 2017) [binding unknown/]
- QualityLand (London: Orion, 2020) [trans by Jamie Lee Searle of the above: illus/hb/Rodrigo Corral]
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