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1999 Articles Datacide 5 Film Reviews

Howard Slater January 24, 2009February 26, 2025 1 Comment Film Theory, Horror, John Carpenter, Movie History

Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter

An analysis of the movies of John Carpenter by Howard Slater from Datacide 5 (1999).
‘As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and regeneration projects it seems as if we inhabit a social world that is policed by technology and is obsessed with security. Just what this technology secures us from is as encrypted as the microchips and cables that power it. Maybe it secures us from ourselves: a constant reminder that we are being ‘watched’ which comes to strengthen the internalisation of those mechanisms of paranoia and stasis that an inherited morality has already instilled.’

Articles Datacide 5 Datacide Issues

datacide January 24, 2009June 20, 2014 1 Comment Media, politics, Surveillance, Technology, war

Prevention of Terrorism?

Largely unnoticed by the public the Labour government has been sneaking in “anti-terrorist” legislation in the wake of the Omagh

Articles Datacide 5 Datacide Issues

Scud January 24, 2009January 13, 2026 1 Comment 9/11, Jihad, Media, politics, Surveillance

“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

1997 Articles Datacide 3 Film Reviews Film/Video

Howard Slater January 23, 2009January 13, 2026 0 Comments Alan J. Pakula, break/flow, Film Theory, Media, Surveillance

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.

1997 Articles Book Reviews Datacide 3

Howard Slater January 22, 2009July 19, 2024 0 Comments Alexander Trocchi, Book Review, Sigma, Situationist International

TROCCHI – THE TRANSVERSALIST

Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography

1997 Articles Datacide 3 Exhibitions

Matthew Hyland January 22, 2009January 13, 2026 0 Comments August Sander, National Portrait Gallery, Review

THE INANIMATE FARMHAND

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.

1997 Articles Book Reviews Datacide 3

Matthew Fuller January 22, 2009July 17, 2024 0 Comments capitalism, Media, politics, Surveillance, Technology, Theory

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.

1997 Articles Datacide 3

The Assessor January 22, 2009July 13, 2024 1 Comment 1997, Datacide 3, Free Party, Ketamine, The Assessor

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.

1997 Articles Datacide 3 Datacide Issues Fiction

Boris Karloff January 22, 2009January 13, 2026 0 Comments Fiction, Media, Surveillance, Technology, Theory

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.