Howard Slater, Author at Datacide

1996 Break/Flow 1

Howard Slater December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 0 Comments 1990s, break/flow, counterculture

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.’

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1 Interviews

Howard Slater December 19, 2024December 21, 2024 0 Comments Fiction, Interview, Underground literature

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.

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1

Howard Slater December 3, 2024December 5, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Alexander Trocchi, counterculture, Project Sigma, Situationist International

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.

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1

Howard Slater November 1, 2024November 6, 2024 0 Comments Anti-Oedipus, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henry Miller, Schizo-politics, Situationist International

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.

1999 2024 Articles Datacide 6 Film Reviews Online Exclusive

Howard Slater July 15, 2024August 7, 2024 0 Comments fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Long Live Death!” – On Pasolini’s Salò (2024)

This text on Pasolini’s Salò first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

2023 Datacide 19

Howard Slater June 24, 2024July 17, 2024 0 Comments Dead By Dawn, Electronic Disturbance Zone, Luc Ferrari, music theory, Nomex, Walter Marchetti

The Electronic Disturbance Zone – Part 1

Following on from a talk/listening session given at the launch for Datacide 18 at Ridley Road Social Club in February 2020, Howard Slater expanded on the theme of the Electronic Disturbance Zone in the following work in progress.

General Outline: 0. Preamble (Sonic Theory, Pierre Schaeffer, EDZ at Dead by Dawn, techno and ambient) 1. Environment Recordings (Luc Ferrari, Murray Schafer) 2. Entity music (Walter Marchetti) 3. Drone (Eliane Radigue, Roland Kayn) 4. Aural collage (John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Industrial) 5. Studio Based Electronics (Stockhausen, Bernard Parmegiani ) 6. Live Electronic Improvisation (David Tudor, Morphogenesis etc) 7. Hybrids/ Heterogeneity (decategorisation)

Part 2 of this text will appear in the next issue of Datacide and will cover Drone through to Studio Based Electronics.

2020 Datacide 18 Fiction

Howard Slater December 30, 2019July 7, 2024 0 Comments 2019, Howard Slater, Poetry

Three Poems by Howard Slater

The peace of the brace
and the crackling litter of silence the craw of a smooth car
disappearing into inhaled shrubbery
These blissful times
workless for a mid-week weekend
dissipating into fought
and spread-eagled over the
solitary joys of non-relation…

2017 Articles Datacide 17

Howard Slater April 22, 2018July 23, 2024 0 Comments Félix Guattari, Octavio Getino, Peter Watkins, Post-Media, Teshome Gabriel, Third Cinema

Unparaphraseable Life – Notes on Third Cinema

Picking up again on Félix Guattari’s notion of ‘post media’, Howard Slater here explores the liberating aspects of the Third Cinema of such directors as Djibril Diop Mambéty and Med Hondo. Drawing on the writings of Teshome Gabriel this text reveals Third Cinema as being an ever-valid challenge to mainstream Western notions of the cinema as a conditioning monoform.

2017 Articles Datacide 16

Howard Slater November 10, 2017July 31, 2024 0 Comments Anti-Psychiatry, David Cooper, Peter Sedgwick, R.D.Laing

‘Comrade Doctor’ – On David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’

‘Comrade Doctor’ is an in-depth article by Howard Slater on David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ from Datacide 16 and a critical response to Christoph Fringeli’s review of Peter Sedgewick’s ‘Psycho-Politics’. He examines the tension between sedate rationality and radical psychiatry, contrasting Laing’s romanticism with David Cooper’s push for politicizing madness to challenge capitalist norms and social alienation.