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Matthew Fuller January 22, 2009July 17, 2024 0 Comments capitalism, Media, politics, Surveillance, Technology, Theory

Perpetual Commotion

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.

1997 Articles Datacide 3

The Assessor January 22, 2009July 13, 2024 1 Comment 1997, Datacide 3, Free Party, Ketamine, The Assessor

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.

1997 Articles Datacide 3 Datacide Issues Fiction

Boris Karloff January 22, 2009July 13, 2024 0 Comments Fiction, Media, Surveillance, Technology, Theory

Plague of the Zombies

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.

1997 Datacide 3 Fiction

G. January 22, 2009July 12, 2024 0 Comments Fiction

Mr. Chairman, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to thank the Organisation for this opportunity, but before I start this speech I also would like to thank all of those who have contributed to this success. I don’t have the words to express my gratitude. What the hell is this? The longest fucking speech you’ve ever heard with long and boring sentences. You get it, open your ears.

1997 Datacide 3 Fiction

Dan Hekate January 22, 2009July 17, 2024 0 Comments Fiction

Six Hurts

Short story by Dan Hekate from Datacide 3.
He had achieved what had always been his ultimate goal. As his form had wilted and crumbled before his creation he felt a wave of ecstasy shoot through. And as the rush expanded to reach its summit, his head exploded sending a greyish red matter splattering against the surrounding surfaces; the sub made by his head lost in the magnitude of the event.

1997 Datacide 2

Matthew Hyland January 22, 2009July 2, 2024 5 Comments Occulture

Gnostic Front – Cultural Studies and Other Suicide Cults

Gnosticism fundamentally opposes Greek and Christian concepts of time, presenting it as abrupt and revolutionary, instead of continuous or leading to redemption. Chris Lehman critiques the modern cultural use of Gnostic ideas, particularly by figures like Greil Marcus, arguing it fosters historical amnesia and trivializes resistance. He highlights the dangers of reducing complex histories to personal, symbolic gestures controlled by consumer capitalism.

1997 Datacide 2 Interviews

datacide January 22, 2009July 2, 2024 0 Comments Interview, Media, politics, Surveillance, Technology, Theory

virtual worlds & concrete STRATEGIES

Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.

1997 Datacide 2 Interviews

datacide January 22, 2009July 2, 2024 0 Comments classwar, Interview, London, politics, Surveillance

Legal Defense and Monitoring Group Interview (1997)

‘The function of the Legal Defense and Monitoring Group is to provide protection for demonstrators from police harassment. It came out of the Trafalgar Square Defendant’s Campaign and Poll Tax Prisoners Support Groupings who got together after the Poll Tax Riots and the idea came up of defending crowds against the cops fitting people up.’

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 21, 2009July 26, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics

Let the Children Play 1

Luther Blissett Moral Panic There’s an anti-Blissett crackdown going on in Italy. The reason is LB’s book ‘Lasciate che i bimbi. “Pedofilia”, un pretesto per la caccia alle streghe’ [Let The Children…: Pedophilia as A Pretext for Witch Hunt], which Castelvecchi Edizioni published in the Autumn of 1997.