Stewart Home, Author at Datacide

Stewart Home January 13, 2015March 9, 2025 1 Comment Book Review, punk rock, Robert Dellar

Robert Dellar, Splitting In Two: Mad Pride & Punk Rock Oblivion (Unkant Publishing) (Book Review)

Robert Dellar’s book is part autobiography, part social history and in places morphs into fiction. It covers both Dellar’s own life via punk rock and the dehumanisation of those deemed clinically insane by the powers that be. While in academia the idea that madness might be the only sane response to capitalist society is often discussed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Oedipal theories, Dellar has a more hands on and activist approach to ‘bad craziness’.

Articles Datacide 11

Stewart Home March 23, 2011March 23, 2011 5 Comments drugs, Stewart Home

Dope smuggling, LSD manufacture, organised crime & the law in 1960s London

I can’t identify with any certainty the first international drug smuggler my mother – Julia Callan-Thompson – befriended, but one

2008 Datacide 10 Film Reviews

Stewart Home January 28, 2009February 18, 2025 1 Comment Film Theory, Review

Peter Whitehead and the Sixties

Peter Whitehead, a filmmaker and enigmatic figure, captured key moments of the 1960s counterculture with his documentaries “Wholly Communion” and “Benefit of the Doubt.” Despite lacking formal filmmaking skills, Whitehead documented major cultural events like Allen Ginsberg’s poetry readings and Pink Floyd performances. His spontaneous, raw filming style, immortalized these moments in British countercultural history, especially *Wholly Communion*. Review of the BFI’s DVD release by Stewart Home in Datacide 10 (2008).

Datacide 9 Datacide Issues Reviews

Stewart Home January 28, 2009 4 Comments Book Review

THE ECLIPSE AND RE-EMERGENCE OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN

You Can’t Win by Jack Black (AK Press/Nabat 2000 £12). Bad by James Carr (AK Press/Nabat 2002 £11). Sister Of

Articles Book Reviews Datacide 7

Stewart Home January 27, 2009January 29, 2024 1 Comment Book Review, Situationist International, Theory

Guy Debord (Biography) by Anselm Jappe (Book Review)

Anselm Jappe: Guy Debord translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith with assistance from the author (University of California Press 1999)

2000 Articles Datacide 7 Datacide Issues

Stewart Home January 27, 2009March 9, 2025 3 Comments Death In June, fascism, music theory, Neofolk, politics

WE MEAN IT MAN: Punk Rock and Anti-Racism – or, Death In June not Mysterious

In WE MEAN IT MAN: Punk Rock and Anti-Racism – or, Death In June not Mysterious, Stewart Home looks at the politics of Crisis and DIJ.

Book Reviews Datacide 6

Stewart Home January 26, 2009January 29, 2024 4 Comments Book Review, COUM Transmissions, Genesis P-Orridge, music theory, Throbbing Gristle

Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle by Simon Ford (Book Review)

The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle by Simon Ford (Black Dog Publishing, London 1999, £19.95) By focusing on

2002 Book Reviews Datacide 8

Stewart Home February 13, 2002February 21, 2025 0 Comments Book Review, Comedy, Communism, Walter Benjamin

Was Marx A Postmodernist?

Double book review by Stewart Home from Datacide Eight. Leslie’s Marxist reading of Benjamin contrasts sharply with Olson’s anti-Marxist take on comedy. Leslie, a British Socialist Workers Party activist, seeks to reclaim Benjamin for Trotskyism, critiquing both philosophical appropriations of Benjamin and the cult around him. Olson, an old-fashioned liberal with anarchist leanings, critiques the shift from a classical to a neo-Marxist literary canon, though his grasp of Marxism is flawed. While Olson’s work lacks Leslie’s rigor, both books offer corrective insights when read together, illustrating the tensions between politics, aesthetics, and ideology.