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1996Break/Flow 1
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Break/Flow in the Shadow City

Break/Flow in the Shadow City is the introductory text by Howard Slater for the first print edition of Break/Flow from 1996.
‘Break/Flow is an autonomous publication that hopes to function in several spaces simultaneously. Though inspired by music, theory, politics, and the literary, it is intensified enough to follow trajectories out of these never once isolatable spheres and inhabit the connections between them. The record is read. The text is played. The historic expands into the present.’

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1999Datacide 6Press Reviews
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Break/Flow 2 (Review of Second Print Edition)

Re-incarnated in print form and collecting essays and texts by Howard Slater from 97-99, ( only a couple of which had been previously published in Autotoxicity), this edition is almost a book. Despite the disparate subject matter a kind of narrative unfolds tracing the “foretaste of freedom in those unexpunged communications that music and literature make tangible”

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1997ArticlesDatacide 3Film ReviewsFilm/Video
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PARALLAXED – A Dark 70s America

Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.

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