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Christoph Fringeli December 25, 2025December 26, 2025 0 Comments Art History, Communism, Historicisation, Situationist International

The Situationist International as World Cultural Heritage?

“The Most Dangerous Game” was the title of an exhibition in 2018 about the Situationist International and it’s “way to May 68” in Berlin. It was the latest in a long development in the historicisation of the group. Founded in 1957 it is seen by some as the “Last Avantgarde”, an art movement that abandoned art for revolutionary action and served as inspiration if not instigation of the May 1968 events in Paris and elsewhere. This leads to contradictions between mainstream historicisation and attempts at situating it in its real anti-political context and a re-radicalisation of its content.

2025 Articles Datacide 20

The Reverend December 14, 2025December 21, 2025 0 Comments Blackmass Plastics, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Hekate Sound System, Rave

Ian Miley Obituary

Ian Miley, producer, DJ and sometimes contributor to Datacide, known as Blackmass Plastics died in June 2025; Obituary by The Reverend.

2025 Articles Online Exclusive

Christoph Fringeli October 29, 2025October 31, 2025 0 Comments 2025, antifa, Far Right, fascism, Germany, Media, repression

Compact Magazine Wins in Court – Ban Lifted

Compact is a far right magazine which appears in print on a monthly basis since 2010. They also produce daily online and video content. By summer 2024 Compact was the far right medium with the largest reach in Germany. It was founded and is edited by former leftist activist and journalist Jürgen Elsässer. In June 2024 the Interior Minister took the unusual step to ban the media organisation. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater April 15, 2025April 17, 2025 0 Comments break/flow, Money

Burnt Money Weekend

The closing text of Break/Flow 2 is an experiment in theoretical fiction that attempts to summarise some of the themes that preceded it: namely voluntary servitude as it coincides with sado-masochism. This latter is rendered as a metaphor for capitalist social relations, their criticism and transformation.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 0 Comments Jean Laplanche, music theory, Sigmund Freud

Abreaction – Notes on the Unconscious and Music

This speculative text from Break/Flow 2 discusses notions of the unconscious as a dialectical dynamic to be embraced rather than as a forbidden zone to be feared. This latter, propagated in part by Freud, leads to a self-censorship that curtails the auto-theorisation that ensues from creative and political engagement. Music eventually comes to figure as that which frees-us-up.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater March 24, 2025April 15, 2025 0 Comments Marcel Proust, music theory

“A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass”

A number of factors led me to read this novel. Not least was Félix Guattari offering that to read À la recherche is more worthwhile than to read all the works of Freud. He wasn’t wrong as this novel, seen as the apex of the Haute-Bourgeois, turned out to be not only a decimation of that class, but an affective tour-de-force in which listening to music is a central and organising theme throughout all its pages.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater March 19, 2025March 27, 2025 0 Comments A Certain Ratio, Factory Records, Joy Division, Martin Hannett, Pro-Situs, Royal Family & The Poor, Situationist International, Tony Wilson

Graveyard & Ballroom – A Factory Records Scrapbook

This text was written to give due to Factory records and their influence on the many music
scenes that followed (not least ‘electronic dance music’). It also aimed to ensure that its cultural and political force was remembered as being drawn from the orbit of The Situationist International. What followed was the post-punk revival and the return of Factory as farce, but nonetheless it is remembered as an ‘anti-university’ by some.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater March 12, 2025March 27, 2025 0 Comments Franz Kafka, Literary Criticism, Psychoanalysis

Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious

This text explores the enigmas and quirks of Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle. It is striking how this novel manages to meld together an endangering desire for knowledge with a depiction of the arcane workings of an institution. However, the key here, and its opening towards a new politics, is how it brings unconscious motivations and unquestioned servitude to the fore.

1999 Articles Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater March 10, 2025April 15, 2025 0 Comments Communism, Franz Kafka, Literary Criticism

“… I MAY PERHAPS BE PERMITTED TO SAY…”

Even as far back as the late 90s an aura of spirituality and/or neurotic existentialism still
clung to the writings of Kafka. Re-reading his short stories at this time revealed an author
acutely sensitive to the psycho-social dynamics of power and resistance as these are
encountered in an everyday life not solely restricted to the world of work and bureaucratic
institutions. This version includes three appendices that have never appeared on line.