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Christoph Fringeli January 22, 2009July 13, 2024 0 Comments Association of Autonomous Astronauts, Book Review, London Psychogeographical Association, Luther Blissett, Stewart Home

Stewart Home (Ed.) – Mind Invaders (Book Review)

A short book review of Mind Invaders – A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism, an anthology edited by Stewart Home and published by Serpent’s Tail in 1997.

1997 Articles Book Reviews Datacide 3

Howard Slater January 22, 2009July 19, 2024 0 Comments Alexander Trocchi, Book Review, Sigma, Situationist International

TROCCHI – THE TRANSVERSALIST

Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography

1997 Book Reviews Datacide 2

Klaus Witz January 22, 2009July 3, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Media, Red Army Faction, Surveillance, Technology, William S. Burroughs

Search & Destroy

Are seemingly accidental deaths in police custody random killings meant to spread terror in the population?

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 21, 2009July 26, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics

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.

1997 Book Reviews Datacide 3

Christoph Fringeli January 21, 2009July 22, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Execution

Th. Metzger: Blood and Volts (Book Review)

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.

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 20, 2009July 26, 2024 1 Comment Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics, Surveillance

Let the Children Play 2

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.

1998 Datacide 4

Luther Blissett January 19, 2009July 26, 2024 0 Comments Book Review, Luther Blissett, Media, politics, Surveillance, Theory

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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nemeton November 1, 2008January 28, 2009 1 Comment Book Review

Pencilbreak Book Review

Please note the the end of this review was accidentally deleted in the print edition. For the full article read

2002 Book Reviews Datacide 8

Stewart Home February 13, 2002February 21, 2025 0 Comments Book Review, Comedy, Communism, Walter Benjamin

Was Marx A Postmodernist?

Double book review by Stewart Home from Datacide Eight. Leslie’s Marxist reading of Benjamin contrasts sharply with Olson’s anti-Marxist take on comedy. Leslie, a British Socialist Workers Party activist, seeks to reclaim Benjamin for Trotskyism, critiquing both philosophical appropriations of Benjamin and the cult around him. Olson, an old-fashioned liberal with anarchist leanings, critiques the shift from a classical to a neo-Marxist literary canon, though his grasp of Marxism is flawed. While Olson’s work lacks Leslie’s rigor, both books offer corrective insights when read together, illustrating the tensions between politics, aesthetics, and ideology.