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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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The main text from Praxis Newsletter 7 from 1995 was originally titled Break the Circle and was reprinted with a short update in the first issue of Break/Flow in 1996.
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