Straight Out the Jungle
review ofADILKNO, The Media Archive, published by Autonomedia Pierre Bourdieu’s book On Television and Journalism that recently caused a shit-storm
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TRUE CONFESSIONS
A 1999 endnote to Luther Blissett’s Let the Children Play (1997), which caused controversy around the time it was published.
Read MoreABSOLUTE MATERIALISM
Heaven’s Gate, Artaud, ‘regenerative slime’.Part 2 of Gnostic Front, datacide two. Few self-contained pieces of bad advice can rival self-help
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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.’
Prevention of Terrorism?
Largely unnoticed by the public the Labour government has been sneaking in “anti-terrorist” legislation in the wake of the Omagh
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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”.
Read More“Expect To Be Exposed To Murder At Any Time”
Labelled “one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world” Osama Bin laden has been
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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.
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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.
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