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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Articles
‘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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David Cooper: Note on Mystification (1978)
Mystification: ‘This term, mystification, itself mystified, entered the field of psychotechnology to specifically account for indirect communicative manoevres in families and other micro-groups.’
No, there are no techniques of demystification. There is no human technology.
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ARMED COMPETITIVENESS – The Working Class gets Called up to Fight Itself: Notes on a Recruitment Crisis
ARMED COMPETITIVENESS – The Working Class gets Called up to Fight Itself: Notes on a Recruitment Crisis, Datacide 16.
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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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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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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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EAT LIKE AN IDEALIST! The ASSASSIN – Association of Musical Marxists Reader (Book Review)
Review of the huge anthology/swansong of the Association of Musical Marxists, published by Unkant in 2015. Reviewed by Matthew Hyland in Datacide 16 (2017).
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Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel – East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989 (Book Review)
Jeffrey Herf: Undeclared Wars with Israel – East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989.
Book Review by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 16 discussing Eastern Bloc support for anti-semitic terror groups during the cold war and resonances in the West German left at the time.