Negri Archives - Datacide

Matthew Hyland January 28, 2009July 25, 2024 0 Comments Autonomy, Communism, Negri

Plague in this Town – The Unfinished History of the Italian Autonomia

This article explores the historical struggles against capitalist control in Italy, focusing on the Autonomia movement’s tactics like self-reduction, political shopping, and illegal occupations. It highlights the state’s repression and manipulation of these social movements and the lingering questions about effective resistance.

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.