1999 Archives - Datacide

1999 Break/Flow 2

Howard Slater February 4, 2025February 13, 2025 0 Comments break/flow, Freedom, Individualism, Law

LIBREVILLE

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.

1999 2024 Articles Datacide 6 Film Reviews Online Exclusive

Howard Slater July 15, 2024August 7, 2024 0 Comments fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Long Live Death!” – On Pasolini’s Salò (2024)

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.

1999 Articles Datacide 5

Christoph Fringeli January 26, 2009November 10, 2024 3 Comments Media, politics, Surveillance, Technology, Theory, war

Information War, Terror and Cultural Subversion

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.

1999 Datacide 6 Press Reviews

datacide January 26, 2009September 10, 2024 2 Comments Book Review, break/flow

Break/Flow 2 (Review of Second Print Edition)

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”

1999 Articles Datacide 6 Film Reviews

Howard Slater January 26, 2009February 16, 2025 2 Comments fascism, Film Theory, Pier Paolo Pasolini

“LONG LIVE DEATH”

Editor’s note: This is the original version as published in Datacide 6. We recommend you read the version slightly revised

1999 Datacide 5 Press Reviews

datacide January 25, 2009July 27, 2024 1 Comment Book Review

Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration.

Transgressions – A Journal of Urban Exploration appeared in 5 issues published by teh Geography Department of the University of Newcastle England in the mid-late 90s. Edited by Alastair Bonnett. Review Editor was Fabian Tompsett. This is a short review of issue 5 which appeared in Datacide 5.

1999 Datacide 5 Datacide Issues

Scud January 24, 2009January 2, 2025 2 Comments Iraq, politics, war

Bomb Graffiti

Somewhere near the end of ‘Apocalypse Now’ Colonel Kurtz, sitting in the almost impenetrable darkness, utters the memorable line: “They teach young men to drop fire on people, but won’t allow them to write ‘Fuck’ on their aeroplanes because they consider it obscene”.