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Break/Flow in the Shadow City

Break/Flow in the Shadow City is the introductory text by Howard Slater for the first print edition of Break/Flow from 1996.
‘Break/Flow is an autonomous publication that hopes to function in several spaces simultaneously. Though inspired by music, theory, politics, and the literary, it is intensified enough to follow trajectories out of these never once isolatable spheres and inhabit the connections between them. The record is read. The text is played. The historic expands into the present.’

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Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma

Over the years, Alex Trocchi’s importance to British underground culture has been sorely neglected. The only published biography deals with Trocchi solely as a literary figure and skims over his association with the likes of Wallace Berman, Guy Debord, RD Laing, William Burroughs, Michael X and others. Rather than restrict Trocchi to this literary classification and berate him for never having come up with the goods after a promising start, it is better to take him on his own terms: as an energised cultural catalyst, one interested in meta-categorical (r)evolt, the insurrection of a million minds.

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SIGMA PORTFOLIO No.5 (1965)

Document: Sigma Portfolio No.5 from 1965 as reprinted in Break/Flow 1 (1996), written by Alexander Trocchi.
‘Since we are concerned to know how we behave, we shall exploit every reproductive technique (audio-video), integrating it as discreetly as possible into structure and decor. Obviously, the original “box-office” must be imperfect and very limited, but it should open soon into a theatre of operations in the country (our “shadow city”) and eventually into civilization if our historical judgement is correct.’

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On Anti-Oedipus: Schizo-politics for Scallies Part 0.0001

On Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari subtitled Schizo-politics for Scallies from Break/Flow 1, 1996 with a short intro 2024.

In the aftermath of the Poll Tax rebellion sense of ‘disenchantment’ was rife. For Howard Slater the key zone of investigation became what could be termed Marxist-Freudianism and an ongoing engagement with Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus was pivotal.

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