“A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass”
Howard Slater’s article “A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass” on Marcel Proust and Music from Break/Flow 2, 1999.
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Graveyard & Ballroom – A Factory Records Scrapbook
Graveyard & Ballroom – A Factory Records Scrapbook by Howard Slater from the second print edition of Break/Flow 2. Incisive investigations into Joy Division, Martin Hannett, Tony Wilson, A Certain Ratio, Royal Family & the Poor, the Situationist influence and the ‘subversion of the product’.
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Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious
In Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious Howard Slater investigates aspects of The Castle by Franz Kafka. From Break/Flow 2, 1999.
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“… I MAY PERHAPS BE PERMITTED TO SAY…”
Article by Howard Slater on Franz Kafka’s aphorisms and short stories, from the second print edition of Break/Flow, originally from 1999, including the appendixes never published online before!
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Evacuate the Leftist Bunker
Exploring the “Rise of the Therapeutic” and Its Impact on Social Struggles
Issue No.18 of Here & Now tackles the decline of social struggles, attributing it in part to the growing influence of the “therapeutic” in modern society. Articles by Frank Dexter, John Barrett, and Mike Peters critically examine how therapy culture reinforces social control, suppresses agency, and distances individuals from collective action. The discussion extends into the political left, where an overemphasis on rationality and ideological purity weakens engagement with emotion and subjectivity. This provocative issue challenges readers to rethink autonomy, social transformation, and the evolving dynamics of resistance.
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LIBREVILLE
LIBREVILLE – introduction – counter/induction is the introductory text to the second print issue of Break/Flow from 1999. Written by Break/Flow editor Howard Slater.
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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.’
Ronald Sukenick – You Don’t Need to Understand
Introduction to and interview with writer Ronald Sukenick, whose novels play with form, notions of time and the very ‘idea’ of the novel just as their characters experiment with identity, place, power and relationships. By Howard Slater from Break/Flow 1, 1996.
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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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