Today, the interior minster of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.
This text on Pasolini’s Salò first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
Full Interview with Joke Lanz about his beginnings in the Punk scene in Switzerland in the 1980s, the birth of his son and the early years of the Sudden Infant project and Schimpfluch Gruppe. From Punk to Noise to Actionism, the human voice as expression and instrument, extensive touring and eventually a turn back towards a more rock oriented format in the latest incarnation of Sudden Infant as a noise rock band.
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Check out these lists of the most read articles on the Datacide website in 2023 and the most watched videos on our Noise & Politics YouTube channel and find out what topics, articles and videos other readers and viewers found most interesting.
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“The Iron Lady has escaped from Hell” to “Long live the General Strike” – some impressions and original footage from the huge and festive rally against the Macron/Borne government’s pension reforms in Paris on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
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Interview with Peter Votava, aka Pure, Current 909 and one half of Ilsa Gold, conducted in 2021 andfirst published on our Noise & Politics YouTube channel in April 2022
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It’s that time of the decade, kids, and once again the Ugandan electoral spectacle shows how to put the “fun” back into dysfunctional!
Here’s a rough guide to the dynamics of central Africa’s most exciting, explosive and explicit post-colonial state.
We have now produced a digital version/eBook as a DRM-free pdf of the issue Datacide 18. Its content is identical to the print edition, but some illustrations are in colour and some links are clickable. It’s ideal to read on your tablet or laptop.
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If you’re using facebook you may have noticed that this very web site was blacklisted from about April 2020-April 2021. It was no longer possible to link to articles on datacide-magazine.com from facebook, and all existing links had been removed. It wasn’t even possible to share our email address in messages.
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