Praxis Communique (Break/Flow 1, 1996)
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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Articles
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!
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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.
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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.
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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”.
“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.
Industrial Music for Industrial People: Throbbing Gristle 1978
Excerpt from Ian Trowell’s new book Throbbing Gristle – An Endless Discontent, published by Intellect Books, details the first gig Throbbing Gristle played north of London in 1978, at the Wakefield Industrial Training College. Uncanny overlaps of TGs touring and the Yorkshire Ripper’s killing spree emerge.
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Marxism Contra Justice – A Critique of Egalitarian Ideology
Neither Karl Marx nor his immediate successors based their critique of capitalism on an ideal of justice.
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Talk: Revolution & Counterrevolution in Germany 1919 @ Vétomat Berlin 14-01-2019
Our new series of talks, discussions and presentations brought to you by Datacide and next:now is going into its fourth round on January 14th, 2019 with a talk about Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919 and beyond, by Christoph Fringeli.
CF will look at the historic dynamic unfolding from the failed revolution, the developments of the communist movement in Germany and the contradictory ways these events are remembered and commemorated.