CONVERGENT SUGGESTION
Some notes on surrealism and organisation The surrealist movement, a reputedly avant-garde moment, has long been a covert source of
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Author: Howard Slater
Lotta Continua – Roots Music and the Politics of Production
“A gigantic cultural revolution is underway. Free expression and the joy of bodies, the autonomy, hybridisation and the reconstruction of
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Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut [Warner Brothers] “That’s what you say now, so at this moment you may even believe
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The Western
The text offers a vivid commentary on the transformation of landscapes and their symbolic connections to human aspirations and social struggles. It juxtaposes orderly agricultural fields, symbolizing efficiency and ownership, with untamed forests and lawless frontier towns, representing unpredictability and societal conflicts. Through the lens of Anthony Mann’s westerns, it explores themes of law, identity, community, and the struggle for power, questioning the balance between imposed order and innate chaos.
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No one recognises these powers as their own (Why Theory?) We have to dispense with the idea that theorising occurs
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a Lost And Found Times anthology [Invisible Books] An excellent compendium of poetry drawn from the Ohio based magazine Lost
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Ultra-red: Second Nature – An Electroacoustic Pastoral [Mille Plateaux] “Thus it was the time of year at which the Bois
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Editor’s note: This is the original version as published in Datacide 6. We recommend you read the version slightly revised
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Minimal Apertures (Insert to The Western)
Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
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