Graveyard & Ballroom – A Factory Records Scrapbook by Howard Slater from the second print edition of Break/Flow 2. Incisive investigations into Joy Division, Martin Hannett, Tony Wilson, A Certain Ratio, Royal Family & the Poor, the Situationist influence and the ‘subversion of the product’.
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In Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious Howard Slater investigates aspects of The Castle by Franz Kafka. From Break/Flow 2, 1999.
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Article by Howard Slater on Franz Kafka’s aphorisms and short stories, from the second print edition of Break/Flow, originally from 1999, including the appendixes never published online before!
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Exploring the “Rise of the Therapeutic” and Its Impact on Social Struggles
Issue No.18 of Here & Now tackles the decline of social struggles, attributing it in part to the growing influence of the “therapeutic” in modern society. Articles by Frank Dexter, John Barrett, and Mike Peters critically examine how therapy culture reinforces social control, suppresses agency, and distances individuals from collective action. The discussion extends into the political left, where an overemphasis on rationality and ideological purity weakens engagement with emotion and subjectivity. This provocative issue challenges readers to rethink autonomy, social transformation, and the evolving dynamics of resistance.
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LIBREVILLE – introduction – counter/induction is the introductory text to the second print issue of Break/Flow from 1999. Written by Break/Flow editor Howard Slater.
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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.
Information War, Cyberwar, Netwar, Anti-War, Technowar, Postmodern War are all new buzzwords in the field of military theory, buzzwords that are now becoming more commonplace and are entering the cultural mainstream. Article based on a talk at Public Netbase, Vienna from 1998.
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Re-incarnated in print form and collecting essays and texts by Howard Slater from 97-99, ( only a couple of which had been previously published in Autotoxicity), this edition is almost a book. Despite the disparate subject matter a kind of narrative unfolds tracing the “foretaste of freedom in those unexpunged communications that music and literature make tangible”
Read MoreEditor’s note: This is the original version as published in Datacide 6. We recommend you read the version slightly revised
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