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1999 Articles Datacide 5 Film Reviews

Howard Slater January 24, 2009February 26, 2025 1 Comment Film Theory, Horror, John Carpenter, Movie History

Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter

An analysis of the movies of John Carpenter by Howard Slater from Datacide 5 (1999).
‘As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and regeneration projects it seems as if we inhabit a social world that is policed by technology and is obsessed with security. Just what this technology secures us from is as encrypted as the microchips and cables that power it. Maybe it secures us from ourselves: a constant reminder that we are being ‘watched’ which comes to strengthen the internalisation of those mechanisms of paranoia and stasis that an inherited morality has already instilled.’

1999 Datacide 5 Datacide Issues

Scud January 24, 2009January 2, 2025 2 Comments Iraq, politics, war

Bomb Graffiti

Somewhere near the end of ‘Apocalypse Now’ Colonel Kurtz, sitting in the almost impenetrable darkness, utters the memorable line: “They teach young men to drop fire on people, but won’t allow them to write ‘Fuck’ on their aeroplanes because they consider it obscene”.

1998 Datacide 4 Film Reviews

Christoph Fringeli January 24, 2009November 10, 2024 0 Comments Film Theory, Media

Wag the Dog – Film Review

11 days before the election the president is suddenly facing a sex scandal after disappearing into his office with a teenage girl. A task force is set up, led by Robert de Niro, and it is decided the thing to do to get the sex scandal out of the headlines is go to war.

1998 Datacide 4 Fiction

Dan Hekate January 24, 2009July 27, 2024 0 Comments Fiction

Zusumine

Zusumine has recently been outlawed in all known sectors of the outer worlds. The Inner worlds have always regarded any drug not taken anally to be illegal. For them, any human who didn’t participate in reverse enemas when partaking of their narcotics was forsaking God and should be Glasmorised immediately.

1997 Articles Datacide 3 Film Reviews Film/Video

Howard Slater January 23, 2009July 22, 2024 0 Comments Alan J. Pakula, break/flow, Film Theory, Media, Surveillance

PARALLAXED – A Dark 70s America

Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.

1998 Book Reviews Datacide 4

Christoph Fringeli January 23, 2009July 27, 2024 1 Comment Book Review, Media, Surveillance, Technology

Virtual Government – CIA Mind Control in America

Review of the conspiracy fest “Virtual Government” by Alex Constantine, published in 1997 by Feral House. Though not uncritical, the book gets treated a bit too lenient… from 1998.

1997 Datacide 3 Interviews

datacide January 23, 2009July 22, 2024 4 Comments Bloody FIst, Interview, Mark N., Nasenbluten

Interview with Mark Newlands / Bloody Fist 1997

Interview with Mark Newlands of Bloody Fist Records from Newcastle Australia with questions asked by Christoph Fringeli of Praxis/Datacide conducted in London in 1997.
“As for our position in the hardcore scene, I don’t know, and I’m not really that interested in keeping a check on that; we do what we do, and if that means we’re stuck off in a corner away from everyone else, then fine. If people are into it, if they think it’s good and it’s a worthwhile label then even better, but it’s not something we consciously work towards.”

1997 Datacide 2

Howard Slater January 22, 2009July 14, 2024 0 Comments Autonomy, Guattari, Media, music theory, Technology, Theory

Post-media Operators

The record industry is in the process of being outflanked by means of the very processes that it has come to rely upon. Since the 60s its continual efforts to create new needs has meant that it nurtured an everchanging musical soundscape that is now mutating at such a pace that it cannot keep track long enough to harness these musical evolutions in the direction of profit.

1997 Datacide 2 Record Reviews

Flint Michigan January 22, 2009July 3, 2024 0 Comments 4E, Force Inc., Khan, Record Review

4-E

One area of electronic dance music that doesn’t seem to be being explored is a more fucked up and experimental use of the slow-break. Force Inc.’s Electric Ladyland series is an exception and one of its frequent contributors, 4-E, has been plying this approach over a series of releases.