In London in the first half of 1997, Weimar Germany came back to London with a discreet vengeance. Dr.Hans Prinzhorn’s ‘Art of the Insane’ (collected 1919-1922) at the Hayward Gallery, George Grosz at the Royal Academy, Marlene Dietrich – the West End musical, and August Sander’s ‘exact’ photography at the National Portrait Gallery.
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The security camera is slotted into the space left by an omniscient god. But this is a deity that’s had to downgrade its ambitions and if god is love, this one has a corner of a shopping centre as the object of its unrelenting devotion. Surveillance is the maintenance of the mundane, of business as usual: of flow control and correct deportment.
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Extensive record review section from Datacide 3 provides further evidence on just how many great records came out in that period. Much hardcore, breakcore, drum’n’bass and experimental stuff reviewed by the border fox, Dan Hekate, Christoph Fringeli, Flint Michigan, Nomex, Scud and more!
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The Spanner case started in 1987 when the Manchester police, through their large scale “Operation Spanner”, seized a number of videos of sado-masochistic activities involving a large group of gay men, and became a landmark case in the 1990s where consensual sadomasochistic activities were criminalised.
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Interview from 1997 with Joel Bevacqua aka Deadly Buda about the early years of the rave scene in the United States and his journey from graffiti artist to hardcore DJ.
About hard techno and raves in the smaller cities of the continent as well as issues of record production and distribution.
Are seemingly accidental deaths in police custody random killings meant to spread terror in the population?
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Perpetual Commotion is a text on and with Critical Art Ensemble and the concept of Electronic Civil Disobedience by Matt Fuller from Datacide 3, autumn 1997.
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The Assessor is an incorporeal being with a love of the severe and disturbing. Possessing immense strength, it has a mind as sharp as a scalpel, ever ready to dissect what comes its way. THE ASSESSOR assesses from afar and sometimes communicates to humans, yet it is rarely reduced to using words as it is now. If provoked it is lethal.
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Now we can understand how zombification operates as an elaborate programme of mind invasion supervised by Vampire Management. It can be regarded as a complex process of manipulation at the level of symbols and aims at implanting specific forms of ideology into zombie minds, to ensure that they think and act in accordance with the dictates of zombie culture. But what is far less banal is how to discover ways of resisting and outflanking the zombie assembly line.
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