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BreakFlow November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Alexander Trocchi, counterculture, R.D.Laing, Situationism, William S. Burroughs

SIGMA PORTFOLIO No.5 (1965)

Document: Sigma Portfolio No.5 from 1965 as reprinted in Break/Flow 1 (1996), written by Alexander Trocchi.
‘Since we are concerned to know how we behave, we shall exploit every reproductive technique (audio-video), integrating it as discreetly as possible into structure and decor. Obviously, the original “box-office” must be imperfect and very limited, but it should open soon into a theatre of operations in the country (our “shadow city”) and eventually into civilization if our historical judgement is correct.’

1965 1996 Break/Flow 1 Documents

BreakFlow November 25, 2024November 27, 2024 0 Comments Alexander Trocchi, counterculture, William S. Burroughs

Sigma Portfolio No. 4 – POTLATCH

Document: Alexander Trocchi’s Sigma Portfolio Number 4, inspired by the concept of Potlatch and ideas of Lettrisme and Situationism as re-published in the first issue of Break/Flow in 1996

1958 1996 Break/Flow 1 Documents

BreakFlow November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 0 Comments Gruppe Spur, Manifesto, Situationist International

SPUR MANIFESTO

Document: Manifesto of the Gruppe Spur in the translation published in Break/Flow 1, 1996. The Spur Group went on to become the German section of the Situationist International until they got expelled in February 1962. This is their first manifesto from 1958.

1967 2023 Datacide 19 Documents

datacide January 23, 2024July 3, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Anti-Imperialism, Berlin, Situationist International, Vietnam

Vietnam, the Third World and the Self-Deception of the Left (1967)

In our series of documents on revolutionary history – for the first time in English: A critique of anti-Imperialism from Berlin 1967 based on the Situationist International’s ‘Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries’ which first appeared in Internationale Situationniste #10 in March 1966. With an introduction by Christoph Fringeli.

1917 1927 Datacide 17 Documents

datacide August 23, 2018July 14, 2024 0 Comments 1917, 1927, Bolshevism, Boris Souvarine, Communist International, Karl Marx, Lenin, Leninism, Leon Trotsky, Marxism, Nikolai Bukharin, October, Russian Revolution

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.

1978 Articles Datacide 16 Documents

datacide November 9, 2017July 14, 2024 0 Comments Anti-Psychiatry, David Cooper, Mystification

David Cooper: Note on Mystification (1978)

Mystification: ‘This term, mystification, itself mystified, entered the field of psychotechnology to specifically account for indirect communicative manoevres in families and other micro-groups.’

No, there are no techniques of demystification. There is no human technology.

1994 Articles Documents

datacide April 7, 2014July 19, 2024 3 Comments 1994 Criminal Justice Act, Advance Party, Class War, Dead By Dawn, Media, Neil Transpontine, Praxis

These Laws: Up Yours! – Documents Relating to “Revolt of the Ravers”

A handful of documents – press clippings and flyers – relating to the article Revolt of the Ravers – The Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-95 from Datacide 13.
This includes scans of various newspapers and flyers mostly from 1994.