Controlled Weirdness’s Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain, first published in Datacide Fourteen in 2015, where he describes his experiences in the old New York of the late 1980s and early 90s.
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You’re too Young to Remember the Eighties – Dancing in a Different Time is the title of an article CW wrote for Datacide Ten in 2008.
In November 2021 we sat down with hin and talked about the topics covered in the article and more: Underground clubs and warehouse parties in London in the early to mid 1980s, charting a hidden history of going out, DJing, electro, the rise of house music and the acid house phenomenon.
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In January 1919 two important figures of the early German communist movement were murdered in Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. This was in the middle of an attempt to turn the revolution that had forced the Kaiser to abdicate in November, 1918 into a fully socialist one. This attempt, often called the Spartacist Uprising, was defeated, as were other attempts in other parts of Germany to set up council republics and workers’ democracy.
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Announcement of the release event for Datacide 18 in February 2020 taking place in London. Organised by Praxis & Hekate at the Ridley Road Social Club in E8.
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A new short story by Joke Lanz:
Her toenails perfectly match the colour of her smartphone. She wears a handbag with a huge Gucci print on it. I look around, more office ladies with handbags, more handbags with prints on it.
Secret codes? Secret messages?
Secret coincidences?
Neither Karl Marx nor his immediate successors based their critique of capitalism on an ideal of justice.
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The peace of the brace
and the crackling litter of silence the craw of a smooth car
disappearing into inhaled shrubbery
These blissful times
workless for a mid-week weekend
dissipating into fought
and spread-eagled over the
solitary joys of non-relation…
News items concerning surveillance, control and repression compiled by Nemeton for the print edition #18 of Datacide include the case of Reality Winner, workplace surveillance, DNA databases and much more.
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All the record reviews by Prole Sector from Datacide 18, feat. Rebekah, Keepsakes, Mickey Nox/Ike Dusk, Ansome & Ossian, Expropriation, Sawf, Drvg Cvltvre, Kwartz, Ena, Stave, Mika Vainio & Franck Vigroux, The Subdermic, East Man & Walton, Katsunori Sawa, Kamikaze Space Program.
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