Jean-François Lyotard Archives

Howard Slater June 28, 2017November 6, 2024 0 Comments Anti-Psychiatry, David Cooper, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Ronald D. Laing, Semiotext(e), Sylvère Lotringer

Demented Idioms – Schizo-Culture: The Event (1975) & The Book (1978)

Schizo Culture was a conference and accompanying journal about a gathering in November 1975, which brought (mainly untranslated) French theorists into collision and collaboration with elements of the SoHo Art Scene and with anti-psychiatry and prison activists. Recently re-published in book form.

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Hannah Lammin June 26, 2015 1 Comment Darkam, Denis Hollier, Free Party, George Bataille, Jean-François Lyotard

Dancing with Death: The Excremental, the Sacred & Ecstatic Community in Free Party Culture

‘The slaughterhouse is linked to religion in so far as the temples of bygone eras … served two purposes: they

Datacide is a magazine that covers experimental electronic music, from the avantgarde to hard dance music, its intersections with radical politics and counterculture, in-depth political and historical analysis and critique as well as experimental fiction, poetry and visual works. In each issue there is an extensive record review section as well as detailed book reviews, comics and news items.Datacide is not affiliated with or part of any specific political group but engages in a revolutionary critique that rejects the historically discredited strains of leftism associated with Social Democracy and Leninism, drawing instead on the rich heritage of dissident Marxism, libertarian communism and critical theory.Datacide is a critical voice in the increasingly irrational and rightward lurching 'posttruth' times of conspiratorial world views and identity politics.