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2017ArticlesDatacide 17News

Political News Datacide 17

Political news section from Datacide 17 which originally appeared in print in 2017. Endless War, Agents Provocateurs, Surveillance, Control, Repression and more

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2017ArticlesDatacide 16

‘Comrade Doctor’ – On David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’

‘Comrade Doctor’ is an in-depth article by Howard Slater on David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ from Datacide 16 and a critical response to Christoph Fringeli’s review of Peter Sedgewick’s ‘Psycho-Politics’. He examines the tension between sedate rationality and radical psychiatry, contrasting Laing’s romanticism with David Cooper’s push for politicizing madness to challenge capitalist norms and social alienation.

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2017ArticlesDatacide 16

Poisoned Fruit in the Walled Garden – The Alt Right: A Growing Problem, But Not a New One

In 2016, the Alt Right, a network of neo-fascist trolls, intensified online hate speech, manipulating public opinion on major political issues like Brexit and Trump’s campaign. Their tactics included posing as ordinary users, creating fake accounts, and spreading misinformation, ultimately aiming to propagate a neo-fascist agenda across America and Europe.

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2017ArticlesDatacide 16

Siege Mentality – Mason, Manson, Moynihan: On the Fringes of the American Nazi Movement

Michael Moynihan has gained a reputation as an intellectual despite his association with fascist and occult circles. He collaborates with other fascist artists, publishes fascist-leaning works, and promotes extremist ideologies. One of Moynihan’s key contribution is publishing ‘Siege’ by James Mason, a collection advocating violence, racial hatred, and revolutionary nihilism, promoting Charles Manson as a new Führer.

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2017ArticlesBook ReviewsDatacide 16

Demented Idioms – Schizo-Culture: The Event (1975) & The Book (1978)

Schizo Culture was a conference and accompanying journal about a gathering in November 1975, which brought (mainly untranslated) French theorists into collision and collaboration with elements of the SoHo Art Scene and with anti-psychiatry and prison activists. Recently re-published in book form.

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