1960s Archives - Datacide

Howard Slater December 3, 2024December 5, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Alexander Trocchi, counterculture, Project Sigma, Situationist International

Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma

Over the years, Alex Trocchi’s importance to British underground culture has been sorely neglected. The only published biography deals with Trocchi solely as a literary figure and skims over his association with the likes of Wallace Berman, Guy Debord, RD Laing, William Burroughs, Michael X and others. Rather than restrict Trocchi to this literary classification and berate him for never having come up with the goods after a promising start, it is better to take him on his own terms: as an energised cultural catalyst, one interested in meta-categorical (r)evolt, the insurrection of a million minds.

1965 1996 Break/Flow 1 Documents

BreakFlow November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Alexander Trocchi, counterculture, R.D.Laing, Situationism, William S. Burroughs

SIGMA PORTFOLIO No.5 (1965)

Document: Sigma Portfolio No.5 from 1965 as reprinted in Break/Flow 1 (1996), written by Alexander Trocchi.
‘Since we are concerned to know how we behave, we shall exploit every reproductive technique (audio-video), integrating it as discreetly as possible into structure and decor. Obviously, the original “box-office” must be imperfect and very limited, but it should open soon into a theatre of operations in the country (our “shadow city”) and eventually into civilization if our historical judgement is correct.’

1967 2023 Datacide 19 Documents

datacide January 23, 2024July 3, 2024 0 Comments 1960s, Anti-Imperialism, Berlin, Situationist International, Vietnam

Vietnam, the Third World and the Self-Deception of the Left (1967)

In our series of documents on revolutionary history – for the first time in English: A critique of anti-Imperialism from Berlin 1967 based on the Situationist International’s ‘Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries’ which first appeared in Internationale Situationniste #10 in March 1966. With an introduction by Christoph Fringeli.