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“Fahrenheit 451” put back to music, or how to save books with an electronic shower

Published on January 16, 2025 at 9:53 p.m. / Modified on January 16, 2025 at 9:55 p.m.

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In network computing, an HTTP 451 error message indicates that a web page has been made inaccessible due to a court order. Is this a form of censorship? Not systematically, but it can happen, and it is not for nothing that the code of this error refers to the Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, who described in 1953 a dystopian society prohibiting all forms of reading – by burning books with flamethrowers.

From text and paper, Bradbury’s work has moved to image and screen: this is of course the Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut (1966). And how do we get back to the lines of code? Through the collective of Neuchâtel electronics engineers Cycle Opérant, which offers a series of film concerts focused on the film by the New Wave director.

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