James St.James – Disco Bloodbath
Disco Bloodbath is a book about Michael Alig – “King of the Club Kids” from the New York club scene by one of its proponents James St James. From Ketamine to murder. Book review from Datacide Seven (2000).
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The Western
The text offers a vivid commentary on the transformation of landscapes and their symbolic connections to human aspirations and social struggles. It juxtaposes orderly agricultural fields, symbolizing efficiency and ownership, with untamed forests and lawless frontier towns, representing unpredictability and societal conflicts. Through the lens of Anthony Mann’s westerns, it explores themes of law, identity, community, and the struggle for power, questioning the balance between imposed order and innate chaos.
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WE MEAN IT MAN: Punk Rock and Anti-Racism – or, Death In June not Mysterious
In WE MEAN IT MAN: Punk Rock and Anti-Racism – or, Death In June not Mysterious, Stewart Home looks at the politics of Crisis and DIJ.
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Information War, Terror and Cultural Subversion
Information War, Cyberwar, Netwar, Anti-War, Technowar, Postmodern War are all new buzzwords in the field of military theory, buzzwords that are now becoming more commonplace and are entering the cultural mainstream. Article based on a talk at Public Netbase, Vienna from 1998.
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Break/Flow 2 (Review of Second Print Edition)
Re-incarnated in print form and collecting essays and texts by Howard Slater from 97-99, ( only a couple of which had been previously published in Autotoxicity), this edition is almost a book. Despite the disparate subject matter a kind of narrative unfolds tracing the “foretaste of freedom in those unexpunged communications that music and literature make tangible”
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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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Minimal Apertures (Insert to The Western)
Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
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No-Tek Interview (1998)
Interview with the French hardcore music collective No-Tek from 1998 about their eclectic post-punk approach towards fast and hard electronic music, their DIY ethic and the “unconscious idealism” of bringing breakbeats into the hardcore sound.
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MEANS FROM AN END – on recent Mille Plateaux releases
Review article on releases from the Mille Plateaux label from 1998. With music we can change the world; subtle changes of perception, shifting an outlook that can no longer be solidified, coherent or self-orienting. We turn instead to an outside: a large window… several horizons… adjectives and vision absconding through red solarised trees.
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