Dub in Babylon (book review)
Christopher Partridge – Dub In Babylon (Equinox) reviewed by John Eden The subtitle is “Understanding the evolution and significance of
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Book Review
Kroker/Weinstein: Data Trash Book Review (1995)
For Kroker, the hype around the info highway etc is the way which bodies are drawn into cyber-space through the seduction of empowerment. The virtual class are those that would formerly be called technocrats and are they that have a vested interest in virtualising more and more aspects of existence’ A critique by Flint Michigan.
Read MoreAll aboard the fantasy spaceship
Book review: Microphone Fiends: youth music and youth culture, ed. Andrew Ross and Tricia Rose (Routledge, 1994) Published in Alien
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Raoul Vaneigem: Movement of the Free Spirit (Review 1995)
Book review of Raoul Vaneigem’s Movement of the Free Spirit, originally from 1986 and published by Zone Books in English in 1994 by Howard Slater. The review was originally published in Alien Underground 0.1 in 1995.
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Critical Art Ensemble: The Electronic Disturbance (Autonomedia, 1994)
In “The Electronic Disturbance,” Critical Art Ensemble explores resistance in the technological age, emphasizing the concept of “liquescence” and the elusive nature of modern power. They advocate for electronic resistance against privatized public spaces, or “bunkers,” and propose small, non-hierarchical groups using technology to create impactful, coordinated acts of civil disobedience. Book review by Flint Michigan.
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Battlenoise! – On the Ideology of “Martial Industrial” Music
A review article about the book Battlenoise! and the ideology of Martial Industrial music from Datacide 10 (2008).
Read MoreEverybody talks about the weather…We don’t:
The writings of Ulrike Meinhof edited by Karin Bauer, afterward by Bettina Röhl. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008. $19.95/£9.99
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François Genoud – The Life of a Swiss Banker and Fascist Anti-Imperialist
François Genoud was born in 1915 in Lausanne, in the french-speaking part of Switzerland. In his teens he became an admirer of Adolf Hitler, met the future “Führer” in person in 1932, and remained a staunch National-Socialist until his death in 1996. His career included publishing the Goebbels diaries, acting as a banker for the Algerian FLN, funding the legal defence Barbie and Carlos, supporting the PFLP and much more.
Read MoreUnfinished Dissertation,
or an “obviously private, elementary photographic experience” Found object in a trash receptacle: tattered and smudged finished dissertation Appropriationist: Boris
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