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.
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Book Review
TROCCHI – THE TRANSVERSALIST
Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography
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Search & Destroy
Are seemingly accidental deaths in police custody random killings meant to spread terror in the population?
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Let the Children Play 1
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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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.
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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.
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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
Pencilbreak Book Review
Please note the the end of this review was accidentally deleted in the print edition. For the full article read
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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.
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