I would like to thank the Organisation for this opportunity, but before I start this speech I also would like to thank all of those who have contributed to this success. I don’t have the words to express my gratitude. What the hell is this? The longest fucking speech you’ve ever heard with long and boring sentences. You get it, open your ears.
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Short story by Dan Hekate from Datacide 3.
He had achieved what had always been his ultimate goal. As his form had wilted and crumbled before his creation he felt a wave of ecstasy shoot through. And as the rush expanded to reach its summit, his head exploded sending a greyish red matter splattering against the surrounding surfaces; the sub made by his head lost in the magnitude of the event.
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.
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Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.
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‘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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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