A top 20 list of the Most Read Datacide Articles in 2016 features a mix of ‘classic’ and (then) new texts from our website.
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For a left that rejects the party-form and in times in which the ‘soviet’ model of workers councils became less viable, the question of organization has proved problematic. Guattari, a life-long member of militant groups from the 60s onwards, never failed to address this issue of how we can ‘belong together’. This short text offers the rudiments of Guattari’s response as informed by his work as a maverick psychoanalyst and his ideas of a micro-politics that upsets long-held views of what it is to be an ‘individual.’
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Many different art movements of the twentieth century have influenced experimental music. This essay will focus mostly on the effect the Fluxus movement has had on music. Fluxus was particularly important to the development of an understanding that music does not necessarily have to be harmonic, and most importantly, that anyone can create music by organizing everyday sounds.
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Book Review of Marcel Bois: Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin – Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Book Review), a comprehensive overall presentation of the history and sociology of the left opposition of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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A review of Peter Sedgwick’s book PsychoPolitics, a highly interesting left wing critique of the Anti-Psychiatry movement from 1982.
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Obituary of Keith Robinson from Desert Storm Sound System who died in September 2016 in London. From Datacide 16, by Marc Hekate.
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Datacide 15 Record Reviews by Christoph Fringeli featuring reviews of records by Lustmord, FFF/Champa B, Hellfish, Liza N’Eliaz and Laurent Hô , Adjust on Low Res, Fragment and Messias on Cathartic Noize Experience, Ruby My Dear, Goner, Christoph de Babalon and others.
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LAST SURVIVORS OR FIRST MUTANTS? – Notes on Surplus Population by Howard Slater from Datacide 15, published 2016.
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