Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain is an article by Controlled Weirdness about 1980s Clubbing in New York, published originally in Datacide 14 in 2014, the follow-up/companion piece to ‘You’re Too Young to Remember the Eighties about London underground clubs and warehouse parties.
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The intense novels of Pierre Guyotat, from Tomb for 500,00 Soldiers to the banned Eden Eden Eden, are a challenging read that draw upon his witnessing the atrocities of the Algerian Civil War. Here, Howard Slater, instead of attempting an impossible exegesis, offers a readers-report, an impressionistic mélange, of the latter novel, first published in France in 1967 and translated into English by Creation Books in 2003.
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Revolt of the Ravers – The Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-95 is a look back at the grassroots campaigns against the then new Criminal Justice Bill which became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and specifically targeted travellers, squatters and ravers.
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