virtual worlds & concrete STRATEGIES
Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.
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Month: January 2009
Legal Defense and Monitoring Group Interview (1997)
‘The function of the Legal Defense and Monitoring Group is to provide protection for demonstrators from police harassment. It came out of the Trafalgar Square Defendant’s Campaign and Poll Tax Prisoners Support Groupings who got together after the Poll Tax Riots and the idea came up of defending crowds against the cops fitting people up.’
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Let the Children Play 1
Luther Blissett Moral Panic There’s an anti-Blissett crackdown going on in Italy. The reason is LB’s book ‘Lasciate che i bimbi. “Pedofilia”, un pretesto per la caccia alle streghe’ [Let The Children…: Pedophilia as A Pretext for Witch Hunt], which Castelvecchi Edizioni published in the Autumn of 1997.
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Th. Metzger: Blood and Volts (Book Review)
The grim and gripping story of the first electric chair and much more. Power and progress embodied by the technological death machine, proving the emerging superpower to be one step ahead and more advanced than the rest of the world.
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Let the Children Play 2
Something serious is happening in Italy. A crackdown recently started in Bologna is going to threaten freedom of speech for Italian netizens. The so-called Musti affair, which we’ll sum up in the next paragraph, is a pretext to create a legal precedent, foster (self-)censorship and possibly enforce the (remarkably restrictive) law on the press in the Italian cyberspace.
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Let the Children Play 3
PREFACE TO “LASCIATE CHE I BIMBI. PEDOFILIA: PRETESTO PER LA CACCIA ALLE STREGHE”
[Let The Children… Pedophilia as a Pretext for a Witch Hunt] by Luther Blissett, Castelvecchi Edizioni, Rome 1997
BUTECH WANTS YOU!
we have to leave, that much is for certain. whether it’s part of the great plan or not, this island is terminal – so rat.
[after a mysterious tip (origin unknown) and finding myself rummaging around a dusty junkshop on an island within the ring-o-fire, i finally came across the material i had long suspected to exist – the true function of the Holy Grail.]
Radio Free Robots: Silicone Carne – Art Kill Art 01
Art Kill Art label out of France asks the question “What does it mean to produce vinyl records in the
Read More.Of God/Mystification – Hell’s Bassment 04
Australian label run by members of .Of God put out a slamming record of hard drum n’ bass with dominant
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