This text was written to give due to Factory records and their influence on the many music
scenes that followed (not least ‘electronic dance music’). It also aimed to ensure that its cultural and political force was remembered as being drawn from the orbit of The Situationist International. What followed was the post-punk revival and the return of Factory as farce, but nonetheless it is remembered as an ‘anti-university’ by some.
Over the years, Alex Trocchi’s importance to British underground culture has been sorely neglected. The only published biography deals with Trocchi solely as a literary figure and skims over his association with the likes of Wallace Berman, Guy Debord, RD Laing, William Burroughs, Michael X and others. Rather than restrict Trocchi to this literary classification and berate him for never having come up with the goods after a promising start, it is better to take him on his own terms: as an energised cultural catalyst, one interested in meta-categorical (r)evolt, the insurrection of a million minds.
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Document: Manifesto of the Gruppe Spur in the translation published in Break/Flow 1, 1996. The Spur Group went on to become the German section of the Situationist International until they got expelled in February 1962. This is their first manifesto from 1958.
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On Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari subtitled Schizo-politics for Scallies from Break/Flow 1, 1996 with a short intro 2024.
In the aftermath of the Poll Tax rebellion sense of ‘disenchantment’ was rife. For Howard Slater the key zone of investigation became what could be termed Marxist-Freudianism and an ongoing engagement with Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus was pivotal.
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In our series of documents on revolutionary history – for the first time in English: A critique of anti-Imperialism from Berlin 1967 based on the Situationist International’s ‘Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries’ which first appeared in Internationale Situationniste #10 in March 1966. With an introduction by Christoph Fringeli.
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Announcement for the release of the 19th print edition of Datacide. We present it at the Hekate Soundsystem party weekend in Rome for the first time in early October, present a stall at the London Radical bookfair in November.
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Event announcement of a two part presentation of talks and spoken word, featuring
Christoph Fringeli: The Situationist International as World Cultural Heritage? A critique of the historicisation of a revolutionary group.
Joke Lanz: Spoken Word Performance
Many different art movements of the twentieth century have influenced experimental music. This essay will focus mostly on the effect the Fluxus movement has had on music. Fluxus was particularly important to the development of an understanding that music does not necessarily have to be harmonic, and most importantly, that anyone can create music by organizing everyday sounds.
Read Moreand the “extended Film Script” by Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett is now available from the Praxis Shop!
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