1999ArticlesBreak/Flow 2

“A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass”

A number of factors led me to read this novel. Not least was Félix Guattari offering that to read À la recherche is more worthwhile than to read all the works of Freud. He wasn’t wrong as this novel, seen as the apex of the Haute-Bourgeois, turned out to be not only a decimation of that class, but an affective tour-de-force in which listening to music is a central and organising theme throughout all its pages.

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1999ArticlesBreak/Flow 2

Graveyard & Ballroom – A Factory Records Scrapbook

This text was written to give due to Factory records and their influence on the many music
scenes that followed (not least ‘electronic dance music’). It also aimed to ensure that its cultural and political force was remembered as being drawn from the orbit of The Situationist International. What followed was the post-punk revival and the return of Factory as farce, but nonetheless it is remembered as an ‘anti-university’ by some.

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1999ArticlesBreak/Flow 2

Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious

This text explores the enigmas and quirks of Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle. It is striking how this novel manages to meld together an endangering desire for knowledge with a depiction of the arcane workings of an institution. However, the key here, and its opening towards a new politics, is how it brings unconscious motivations and unquestioned servitude to the fore.

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1999ArticlesBreak/Flow 2

“… I MAY PERHAPS BE PERMITTED TO SAY…”

Even as far back as the late 90s an aura of spirituality and/or neurotic existentialism still
clung to the writings of Kafka. Re-reading his short stories at this time revealed an author
acutely sensitive to the psycho-social dynamics of power and resistance as these are
encountered in an everyday life not solely restricted to the world of work and bureaucratic
institutions. This version includes three appendices that have never appeared on line.

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1999ArticlesBreak/Flow 2

Evacuate the Leftist Bunker

This text was written in early 1999 at a time before the upswing of anti-capitalist protest at
Seattle, Prague, Genoa and at the Carnival against Capitalism in London. However, its far
from exhaustive critique of Left groupuscules inaugurated a long term writing and research
project that, combining psychoanalysis and literature to reassess capitalist social relations,
has gone by many names over the years: Micropolitics, Psyche-Pol, Affective Class etc.

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Stewart Home Interview Part Three

Starting with Come Before Christ and Murder Love, Stewart Home’s books saw quite a departure from his skinhead-influenced early novels. He started experimenting with different approaches to forms of anti-novels in books such as 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, Memphis Underground, The Nine Lives of Ray the Cat Jones and most recently Art School Orgy. In this last part of our interview we talk about these different approaches and how they undermine literature as we know it.

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