Så
länge som det funnits en tanke på universell befrielse genom
kommunistisk revolution, har detta projekt rymt en spänning mellan
två tillvägagångssätt – två motsatta positioner, bland
människor som, ytligt betraktat, strävar efter samma slutmål.
Å
ena sidan finner vi ett synsätt som kan sammanfattas med dessa ord:
Endast revolutionen kommer att öppna för ett verkligt lustfyllt
liv, och för att nå dit måste vi agera som asketiska kadrer.
Den
motsatta sidan menar: Bara genom att utveckla våra lust och följa
våra begär kommer revolutionen att öppna sig som en möjlighet.
Om
vi blickar tillbaka på det gångna seklets två stora faser av
revolutionära kamper (den första kring 1917–23, den andra kring
1967–77, med geografiska variationer), så finner vi genast att det
för många revolutionärer varit grundläggande och självklart att
hedonism och revolution måste gå hand i hand.
Frågan
är nära kopplad till synen på arbete. “Frihetens rike börjar
i själva verket först där det arbete som är bestämt av nödtvång
och yttre ändamålsenlighet upphör”, skriver Marx i det tredje
bandet av Kapitalet.
Han lämnar inga tvivel om att frihetens rike alltid måste bygga på
nödvändighetens rike, men heller inte om att människans mål måste
vara att uppnå största möjliga frihet. Och detta måste inbegripa
lönearbetets avskaffande.
Illustration by Joke Lanz for Datacide 18 (coming soon)
The second in a new series of talk and discussion events hosted by Datacide and next:now at Vétomat Berlin.
Datacide presents Talk, performance, discussion With Joke Lanz and Christoph Fringeli
17-12-2018
At Vétomat, Wühlischstr. 42, 10245 Berlin
Doors open 7pm
8pm Christoph Fringeli: The Situationist International as World Cultural Heritage? A critique of the historicisation of a revolutionary group.
9pm Joke Lanz: Spoken Word Performance
+ public discussion.
JOKE LANZ (*1965 Basel)
Joke Lanz has worked as a garbageman, factory worker, sales assistant, caretaker, housekeeper, carpet dealer, chicken farmer, record shop owner, night watch, sauna assistant, roadie, secretary, cleaner, nude model, part-time single father, chocolate producer, bike messenger…
Just to name a few! [Read more →]
DATACIDE SIXTEEN is ready! Order or subscribe NOW to get your copy with the first mailout!
Table of content see below / click on cover image to get to the Order page!
If you prefer to order without creating an account in the Praxis Shop, you can also just paypal 5 euro (single issue)/ 15 euro (subscription for 3 issues) to info@datacide-magazine.com – However when ordering through the shop you will receive a voucher for a 10% discount for your next order.
In order to be able to offer the super-cheap price of only 5 euro INCL. world wide shipping we need to be able to do bulk shipments. The first lot will leave datacide HQ in Berlin Thursday March 16 at 2pm. If you order before 1pm your copy will be included.
Even better than just ordering a copy of the new issue, please consider taking out a SUBSCRIPTION for only 15 euro for three issues incl. shipping. [this will also protect you against a future rise of the cover price – which is quite likely]
BERLINERS are welcome to join us this friday, March 17, 2017, at Vetomat, Wühlischstr. 42, for a small launch event with a presentation of the new issue and a public discussion with datacide contributors Christoph Fringeli, Alexia Elliott and others t.b.c. Meet for some drinks, küfa, and noise!
What strikes me when I look back at the first issue of datacide is that there is no editorial, no statement of intent — something remarkable for a new marginal publication launching itself.
Instead, the zine jumps right in with a reprinted update on the then proposed new police bill. This is followed by news items about a record company trying to copyright the term ‘Teknival’. We perceived these events as a two-pronged assault by the state and by commerce on what we saw as an emerging underground movement connected to hard electronic dance music. Indeed the following news about ‘new networks of distribution and communication’ were trying to counteract this with the optimistic proposal of a mode of autonomous organisation that would function in an ‘entirely decentralized manner that allows the specific identity of its “members” maximum freedom, a rhizome-like structure that is invisible and everywhere at the same time’. This is then illustrated with news about current activities of record labels and soundsystem crews, reviews of parties and interspersed with some experimental fiction pieces. The mixture of artist interviews, record reviews, technology critique, counter-cultural angles as well as programmatic texts set the tone for the following issues. In datacide one it was left to the London Psychogeographical Association to make an explicit call for communism, while it was Flint Michigan who provided a programmatic text titled BREAK/FLOW versus DATACIDE.
Due to the political climate at the time the first issue went to print, datacide didn’t need explanations or an explicit statement of intent to be understood by its audience. [Read more →]
