The Assessor is an incorporeal being with a love of the severe and disturbing. Possessing immense strength, it has a mind as sharp as a scalpel, ever ready to dissect what comes its way. THE ASSESSOR assesses from afar and sometimes communicates to humans, yet it is rarely reduced to using words as it is now. If provoked it is lethal.
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Now we can understand how zombification operates as an elaborate programme of mind invasion supervised by Vampire Management. It can be regarded as a complex process of manipulation at the level of symbols and aims at implanting specific forms of ideology into zombie minds, to ensure that they think and act in accordance with the dictates of zombie culture. But what is far less banal is how to discover ways of resisting and outflanking the zombie assembly line.
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I would like to thank the Organisation for this opportunity, but before I start this speech I also would like to thank all of those who have contributed to this success. I don’t have the words to express my gratitude. What the hell is this? The longest fucking speech you’ve ever heard with long and boring sentences. You get it, open your ears.
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Short story by Dan Hekate from Datacide 3.
He had achieved what had always been his ultimate goal. As his form had wilted and crumbled before his creation he felt a wave of ecstasy shoot through. And as the rush expanded to reach its summit, his head exploded sending a greyish red matter splattering against the surrounding surfaces; the sub made by his head lost in the magnitude of the event.
Gnosticism fundamentally opposes Greek and Christian concepts of time, presenting it as abrupt and revolutionary, instead of continuous or leading to redemption. Chris Lehman critiques the modern cultural use of Gnostic ideas, particularly by figures like Greil Marcus, arguing it fosters historical amnesia and trivializes resistance. He highlights the dangers of reducing complex histories to personal, symbolic gestures controlled by consumer capitalism.
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Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.
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Electronically composed sound, communally celebrated has the effect of some collective plateau phase. Music becomes a device, a prosthetics that leads to a hypersensitization – an overspill that establishes a field of flow between listeners.
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Whilst those of us in the UK were being deluded by the rise of ‘intelligent techno’, a pocket of resistance arose in the Hague through the activities of the Acid Planet parties and the Bunker label: Unit Moebius, Interr-ference, Rude 66, Sulphur Surfer…
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A short article from Datacide 1 which for the first time was writing about the developments of French speedcore in general and more specifically about the emerging work of the Michelson sisters, who were in the process of changing the hardcore narrative.
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