“LONG LIVE DEATH”
Editor’s note: This is the original version as published in Datacide 6. We recommend you read the version slightly revised
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1999
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.
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Straight Out the Jungle
review ofADILKNO, The Media Archive, published by Autonomedia Pierre Bourdieu’s book On Television and Journalism that recently caused a shit-storm
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Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter
An analysis of the movies of John Carpenter by Howard Slater from Datacide 5 (1999).
‘As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and regeneration projects it seems as if we inhabit a social world that is policed by technology and is obsessed with security. Just what this technology secures us from is as encrypted as the microchips and cables that power it. Maybe it secures us from ourselves: a constant reminder that we are being ‘watched’ which comes to strengthen the internalisation of those mechanisms of paranoia and stasis that an inherited morality has already instilled.’
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”.
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