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
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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.]
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.
Read More13.11.2008 – Berlin. Datacide präsentiert: “Zwischen Resignation und Resignifikation: Die Auf-gabe der Kunst.”
Widerständigkeit oder Affirmation – ist Kunst als oppositionell zur bestehenden Gesellschaftsordnung oder als deren Komplizin zu verstehen? Der Vortrag von Andrea Wald wird nach den Machtprozesse in der Kunst fragen. Die Referentin umschreibt das Handeln durch Nicht-Handeln und die Perspektiven einer radikal-emanzipatorischen Politik. Unter Bezugnahme auf Jaques Rancière, Gilles Deleuze und Slavoj Žižek wird die Referentin ihre Ausführungen belegen.
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Datacide fundraiser at Subversiv, Berlin Oct. 4th 2008
Datacide fundraiser at Subversiv, Berlin Oct. 4th 2008 in collaboration with Seven Samurai Records, featuring Amboss, Fobia, Christoph Fringeli, Kippu, Parataxia, Duodrome, Sansculotte at Subversiv Berlin.
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Study on “a-typical” Anti-psychotic Drugs Shows Risks
Study on “a-typical” Anti-psychotic Drugs Shows Risks – reference to article in the New York Times on dangers of neuroleptics.
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Bifo in Osaka
Franco Berardi, better known as the Italian media theorist Bifo, was in Osaka, Japan last week as part of a tour that brought him to the protests against the G8 meeting in Hokkaido. He gave a talk on media activism at an event organized by Remo, a local media collective. 2008.
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Sub/Version 013 – Vile Enginez: Cycadelic / Tool out now!
After several months on white label Vile Enginez’ new release on Sub/Version is out this week – a mind trip through devilish labyrinths of a myriad of sound constructions. Vile Enginez, hailing for Basel, CH, has produced his most innovative and complex record yet.
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Repression and the Riot Situation in Kamagasaki (Osaka) related to G8 Meeting
Over the past week and a half, an unprecedented political crackdown has been enacted in advance of a series of economic summits around the country. Despite this, the brave workers of Kamagasaki stood up against the stiff security environment in riots against the brutal beating of a day laborer over the past five days. The twin situations of repression and revolt deserve to be examined in more detail.
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