konkret was one of the most important left wing print media for 7 decades, edited by Hermann L. Gremliza since 1974 until his death in 2019. Under new editorship it recently stopped the print edition and went digital. We’re looking at its history and its chances of survival in a changed media landscape.
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“The Most Dangerous Game” was the title of an exhibition in 2018 about the Situationist International and it’s “way to May 68” in Berlin. It was the latest in a long development in the historicisation of the group. Founded in 1957 it is seen by some as the “Last Avantgarde”, an art movement that abandoned art for revolutionary action and served as inspiration if not instigation of the May 1968 events in Paris and elsewhere. This leads to contradictions between mainstream historicisation and attempts at situating it in its real anti-political context and a re-radicalisation of its content.
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Compact is a far right magazine which appears in print on a monthly basis since 2010. They also produce daily online and video content. By summer 2024 Compact was the far right medium with the largest reach in Germany. It was founded and is edited by former leftist activist and journalist Jürgen Elsässer. In June 2024 the Interior Minister took the unusual step to ban the media organisation. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban.
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The main text from Praxis Newsletter 7 from 1995 was originally titled Break the Circle and was reprinted with a short update in the first issue of Break/Flow in 1996.
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An early review article from Break/Flow 1 (1996) about the underground record label and distribution operation Network 23, set up by members of Spiral Tribe in 1994.
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Michel Roger, (born March 5, 1948), also known as Michel Olivier, historian of the left communist movement and militant in several organisations of the communist left since the late 60s, died July 3, 2024; with his books researching and detailing unknown aspects of the history of the communist left he made essential contributions to the history of the movement.
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Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.
Updated version of the Nomex and Adverse Records discography originally from the Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume Two (2016). It includes Nomex’s releases on his own Adverse label, partially based on the now-defunct Adverse website, the Maschinenbau 7″s, the releases on Praxis and other essential noise and concept-core.
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Record reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 19 feat. new releases on vinyl by GRMMSK, Gwakaï, The DJ Producer, Scorn, HFK, KK Null/Dot Product, R-Zac, Taciturne, C Mantle as well as compilations from Stirpe999 and Sozialistischer Plattenbau.
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