Articles Archives

datacide January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 0 Comments

Stewart Home Interview Part Three

Starting with Come Before Christ and Murder Love, Stewart Home’s books saw quite a departure from his skinhead-influenced early novels. He started experimenting with different approaches to forms of anti-novels in books such as 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, Memphis Underground, The Nine Lives of Ray the Cat Jones and most recently Art School Orgy. In this last part of our interview we talk about these different approaches and how they undermine literature as we know it.

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.

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1 Record Reviews

BreakFlow September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 0 Comments Christoph de Babalon, Electro, Record Review, Somatic Responses, Underground Resistance

Messages to the Majors – Break/Flow 1 – Record Reviews (1996)

Titled Messages to the Majors these are the record reviews from Break/Flow 1, mostly written by Flint Michigan and a couple by Christoph Fringeli – and one by Michel Foucault!

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1 Record Reviews

Flint Michigan September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 0 Comments Joe Meek, Techno

Techno: Hallucinating History! >>> part one: Joe Meek and Telstar

Joe Meek, a pioneering independent music producer, created the hit “Telstar” in 1962 using innovative techniques like overdubbing and echo in his home studio. Known for his experimental approach, he produced the avant-garde concept album *I Hear a New World*. Meek’s career ended tragically in 1967 when, plagued by paranoia and legal issues, he killed his landlady before taking his own life.

1996 Articles Break/Flow Break/Flow 1

BreakFlow August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 0 Comments Anarchism, Cyberculture, Félix Guattari, Situationism, techno zines

Autonomous, Palpable and Pulpable (1996)

Print reviews from the first edition of Break/Flow from 1996, featuring Degenerative Prose, Erik Belgum, Asger Jorn, the state of British anarchism, TEchnoscience and Cyberculture, Félix Guattari and a techno zine round up.

2024 Articles Online Exclusive

Christoph Fringeli July 16, 2024November 13, 2024 1 Comment antifa, Compact Magazine, Far Right, fascism, Media, Neo-Nazis, Verfassungsschutz

Far-right Compact Magazine Banned

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”.