“Expect To Be Exposed To Murder At Any Time”
Labelled “one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world” Osama Bin laden has been
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PARALLAXED – A Dark 70s America
Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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TROCCHI – THE TRANSVERSALIST
Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography
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THE INANIMATE FARMHAND
In London in the first half of 1997, Weimar Germany came back to London with a discreet vengeance. Dr.Hans Prinzhorn’s ‘Art of the Insane’ (collected 1919-1922) at the Hayward Gallery, George Grosz at the Royal Academy, Marlene Dietrich – the West End musical, and August Sander’s ‘exact’ photography at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Perpetual Commotion
Perpetual Commotion is a text on and with Critical Art Ensemble and the concept of Electronic Civil Disobedience by Matt Fuller from Datacide 3, autumn 1997.
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THE ASSESSOR
The Assessor is an incorporeal being with a love of the severe and disturbing. Possessing immense strength, it has a mind as sharp as a scalpel, ever ready to dissect what comes its way. THE ASSESSOR assesses from afar and sometimes communicates to humans, yet it is rarely reduced to using words as it is now. If provoked it is lethal.
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Plague of the Zombies
Now we can understand how zombification operates as an elaborate programme of mind invasion supervised by Vampire Management. It can be regarded as a complex process of manipulation at the level of symbols and aims at implanting specific forms of ideology into zombie minds, to ensure that they think and act in accordance with the dictates of zombie culture. But what is far less banal is how to discover ways of resisting and outflanking the zombie assembly line.
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ALL WAS MUSIC. On Walter Marchetti.
Shadowing Conceptual Art and Fluxus, Walter Marchetti is perhaps one of those many involutionary figures who have stealthily stepped only at the edges of an institutional recognition. Howard Slater approaches the subversive composer in this article from Datacide 8, originally published in 2002.
Read MoreSubmission Soundtracking
Electronica as a scene has coagulated primarily as a media concern – in that the media itself needed to bolster
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