A Cry Against Help* & 13 Prostheses on Carelessness of the Self
Psycho-historian Chris Millard has described the clinical invention of ‘self-harm’ as a category so narrow that most cases actually treated
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Anti-Imperialism – Bankruptcy of the Left? (2016 Version)
A critique of the ideology of anti-Imperialism that has led to alliances of far left groups with reactionary nationalist dictatorships and religious movements and has been tainted with anti-Semitism over the decades, often masquerading as ‘anti-Zionism’.
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Towards a New African Fascism – Kagame’s Rwanda in the 21st Century
An essay on Rwanda under Paul Kagame’s rule in the 21st century. Is it developing in the direction of a ‘New Afraican Fascism’?
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Sincere Genesis – On Félix Guattari & Groups
For a left that rejects the party-form and in times in which the ‘soviet’ model of workers councils became less viable, the question of organization has proved problematic. Guattari, a life-long member of militant groups from the 60s onwards, never failed to address this issue of how we can ‘belong together’. This short text offers the rudiments of Guattari’s response as informed by his work as a maverick psychoanalyst and his ideas of a micro-politics that upsets long-held views of what it is to be an ‘individual.’
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Just Say Non: Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice
Boyd Rice is a US based noise musician and a key link of ‘industrial music’ and political fascism. In this
Read MoreEverything Else is Even More Ridiculous – Introduction by Christoph Fringeli
What strikes me when I look back at the first issue of datacide is that there is no editorial, no
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Fluxus and DIY Concerts
Many different art movements of the twentieth century have influenced experimental music. This essay will focus mostly on the effect the Fluxus movement has had on music. Fluxus was particularly important to the development of an understanding that music does not necessarily have to be harmonic, and most importantly, that anyone can create music by organizing everyday sounds.
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Peter Sedgwick: Psycho Politics – Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the Future of Mass Psychiatry (Book Review)
A review of Peter Sedgwick’s book PsychoPolitics, a highly interesting left wing critique of the Anti-Psychiatry movement from 1982.
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Keith Robinson Desert Storm 06/08/68-18/09/16 Obituary
Obituary of Keith Robinson from Desert Storm Sound System who died in September 2016 in London. From Datacide 16, by Marc Hekate.
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