THE WORLD MADE FLESH
In Peckham a new city has been born. An arched bank of metal on struts covering a shallow stretched flight
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Datacide Issues
More Trouble in the Balkans
The Kosovo war was also an information war that was led surprisingly successful considering how many ‘facts’ had to be
Read MoreTerror Against Terror – The Immediate Aftermath of 911 (2001)
On September 11, 2001, 8.45 am, an American Airlines plane with 92 passengers on board crashed into the north tower
Read MoreREFUGEE SUBJECTIVITY – ‘Bare life’ and the Geographical Division of Labour
In the border country They’ve done it all We kept watch As they smashed the wall Swell Maps, “Border Country”
Read MorePencilbreak Book Review
Please note the the end of this review was accidentally deleted in the print edition. For the full article read
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Was Marx A Postmodernist?
Double 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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Test Tube Kid Interview
Interview from 1995 with Patric Catani as his mid-90s industrial hardcore alter ego, Test Tube Kid, offering great insights in the activities of the German hardcore and Digital Hardcore scenes at the time. Plus observations on Gabber, the Love Parade as a festival of conformity and Berlin as the metropolis of the new sound!
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Teknival – Summer Thunder
Teknival was started by Spiral Tribe in the Summer of 1993 as free festivals of techno music and art. This article by Mark Spiral (aka Mark Angelo Harrison) describes the attempt by a commercial record distributor to “copyright” the term Teknival, but more importantly looks into other pitfalls of marketing underground culture, including the now legendary Network 23.
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Lab Rats a go-go
The security camera is slotted into the space left by an omniscient god. But this is a deity that’s had to downgrade its ambitions and if god is love, this one has a corner of a shopping centre as the object of its unrelenting devotion. Surveillance is the maintenance of the mundane, of business as usual: of flow control and correct deportment.
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