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2019Book ReviewsDatacide 18
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Frankenstein, or the 8-Bit Prometheus – Micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza Records 17th Anniversary by Riccardo Balli

Frankenstein, or the 8-Bit Prometheus – Micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza Records 17th Anniversary by Riccardo Balli. We document the Reddit controversy between Balli and Reynolds!

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2019Book ReviewsDatacide 18
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A Fascist Tulpa in the White House? Right-wing ‘Meme Magic’ and the Rise of Trump

In his book “Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump,” Gary Lachman explores the role of occult ideas in contemporary politics, particularly in the USA and Russia during the Trump era. Lachman delves into “New Thought,” Chaos Magic, and traditionalist influences on right-wing movements.
Book review by Neil Transpontine

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Boris Souvarine: Black October – Ten Years of the Russian Revolution (1927)

Boris Souvarine (1895-1984) was a co-founder of the French Communist Party and activist in the Communist International. He broke from the party in 1924 and became a critical supporter and part of the anti-Stalinist opposition within the international communist movement, observing and analysing the degeneration of the Bolsheviks from a revolutionary force to the political organisation of a new ruling stratum in Soviet Russia. This is his article about 10 years of the revolution for the first time in English.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti: Memoirs of a Woman of Extreme Pleasures (Interview and Book Review)

Cosey Fanni Tutti interviewed by Jo Burzynska. Originally conducted in 2000, this interview with female pioneer of industrial music and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti finally made it into the pages of Datacide in issue 17, along with a book review of her memoir Art Sex Music.

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Unparaphraseable Life – Notes on Third Cinema

Picking up again on Félix Guattari’s notion of ‘post media’, Howard Slater here explores the liberating aspects of the Third Cinema of such directors as Djibril Diop Mambéty and Med Hondo. Drawing on the writings of Teshome Gabriel this text reveals Third Cinema as being an ever-valid challenge to mainstream Western notions of the cinema as a conditioning monoform.

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