Timeline Archives - Page 28 of 31

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.

1997 Book Reviews Datacide 3

Christoph Fringeli January 21, 2009July 22, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Execution

Th. Metzger: Blood and Volts (Book Review)

The grim and gripping story of the first electric chair and much more. Power and progress embodied by the technological death machine, proving the emerging superpower to be one step ahead and more advanced than the rest of the world.

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 20, 2009July 26, 2024 1 Comment Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics, Surveillance

Let the Children Play 2

Something serious is happening in Italy. A crackdown recently started in Bologna is going to threaten freedom of speech for Italian netizens. The so-called Musti affair, which we’ll sum up in the next paragraph, is a pretext to create a legal precedent, foster (self-)censorship and possibly enforce the (remarkably restrictive) law on the press in the Italian cyberspace.

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 19, 2009July 26, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics, Surveillance, Theory

Let the Children Play 3

PREFACE TO “LASCIATE CHE I BIMBI. PEDOFILIA: PRETESTO PER LA CACCIA ALLE STREGHE”
[Let The Children… Pedophilia as a Pretext for a Witch Hunt] by Luther Blissett, Castelvecchi Edizioni, Rome 1997

1997 Datacide 3 Fiction

Reverend Butech January 15, 2009July 22, 2024 0 Comments Fiction

BUTECH WANTS YOU!

we have to leave, that much is for certain. whether it’s part of the great plan or not, this island is terminal – so rat.
[after a mysterious tip (origin unknown) and finding myself rummaging around a dusty junkshop on an island within the ring-o-fire, i finally came across the material i had long suspected to exist – the true function of the Holy Grail.]

2002 Articles Datacide 8

Howard Slater January 5, 2009February 9, 2025 2 Comments break/flow, Futurism, music theory, Record Review

ALL WAS MUSIC. On Walter Marchetti.

Shadowing Conceptual Art and Fluxus, Walter Marchetti is perhaps one of those many involutionary figures who have stealthily stepped only at the edges of an institutional recognition. Howard Slater approaches the subversive composer in this article from Datacide 8, originally published in 2002.