1998

1998ArticlesDatacide 4

Plague in this Town – The Unfinished History of the Italian Autonomia

This article explores the historical struggles against capitalist control in Italy, focusing on the Autonomia movement’s tactics like self-reduction, political shopping, and illegal occupations. It highlights the state’s repression and manipulation of these social movements and the lingering questions about effective resistance.

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1998ArticlesDatacide 4Film Reviews

The Western

The text offers a vivid commentary on the transformation of landscapes and their symbolic connections to human aspirations and social struggles. It juxtaposes orderly agricultural fields, symbolizing efficiency and ownership, with untamed forests and lawless frontier towns, representing unpredictability and societal conflicts. Through the lens of Anthony Mann’s westerns, it explores themes of law, identity, community, and the struggle for power, questioning the balance between imposed order and innate chaos.

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1998Datacide 4Record Reviews

MEANS FROM AN END – on recent Mille Plateaux releases

Review article on releases from the Mille Plateaux label from 1998. With music we can change the world; subtle changes of perception, shifting an outlook that can no longer be solidified, coherent or self-orienting. We turn instead to an outside: a large window… several horizons… adjectives and vision absconding through red solarised trees.

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1998Datacide 4Fiction

FILTHY THIRD PSALM (237/237)

unique citizenship realized and spiced higher essence that pales only before the sun of the cadence of speech. caffeine linguist. having carefully edited sect tone with line which extends to the separate reels, he was about to play thee of them;is supplike all the other recorder and stepped back from the tator of the pelvis. it escapes a fevered voice croaking its gibberish then fought it down…

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