Datacide 8 – record reviews
The record review section from Datacide Eight with reviews by Flint Michigan, Ian Trowell, Redmax, Jason Byram, Kovert, Eun and
Read MoreThe record review section from Datacide Eight with reviews by Flint Michigan, Ian Trowell, Redmax, Jason Byram, Kovert, Eun and
Read MoreAn interview of Polish breakcore masters Slepcy by stevvi, originally conducted in May 2001 (and if I remember right published
Read MoreThis article is written with its practical use value in mind. It is about Psychiatry, and that means about psychiatric
Read MoreOn Godard’s Masculin/Féminin (Now? The SI?) For many still overawed by the pronouncements of the Situationist International the names of
Read MoreJudicial hermeneutics The truism that history is written by (or rather, on behalf of) conquerors is more respectable now than
Read MoreShadowing 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 MoreElectronica as a scene has coagulated primarily as a media concern – in that the media itself needed to bolster
Read MoreIn Peckham a new city has been born. An arched bank of metal on struts covering a shallow stretched flight
Read MoreDouble book review by Stewart Home from Datacide Eight. Leslie’s Marxist reading of Benjamin contrasts sharply with Olson’s anti-Marxist take on comedy. Leslie, a British Socialist Workers Party activist, seeks to reclaim Benjamin for Trotskyism, critiquing both philosophical appropriations of Benjamin and the cult around him. Olson, an old-fashioned liberal with anarchist leanings, critiques the shift from a classical to a neo-Marxist literary canon, though his grasp of Marxism is flawed. While Olson’s work lacks Leslie’s rigor, both books offer corrective insights when read together, illustrating the tensions between politics, aesthetics, and ideology.
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