TIL that the New Wave band DEVO was formed in response to the Kent State shootings.
In 1970, co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis got serious about their idea of the "de-evolution" of the human race after Casale's friends Jeffrey Miller & Allison Krause were killed by OH national guards.
Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.
I mean, them having fun being weird was also probably what drew them to Dada and Neo-Dada, but there was some thought that went into how Dada could be used on new communication technologies.
The Church of Euthanasia distributed self-consciously Dada literature over Usenet, and there was a ton of optimism about what the future of communication tech could hold. There was a lot of overlap between early hackers and the phone phreaker community.
archives.textfiles.com/magazines.zip
Here's the download link for the whole Zine section. It's only about 100Mb, plain text is tiny and compresses really easily.