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2023 Book Reviews Datacide 19

Neil Transpontine November 8, 2023January 9, 2025 0 Comments Dance Music, Ed Gillett, Rave History, United Kingdom

Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain (book review)

Ed Gillett’s book ‘Party Lines – Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain’, published by Picador in 2023, reviewed by Neil Transpontine.

2016 Articles Datacide 16

Matthew Hyland May 4, 2017December 24, 2024 0 Comments 2016, Brexit, Proletariat, United Kingdom, Working Class

Notes from Non-Existence – Brexit vs. the Proletariat

Jay Gould may or may not actually have said ‘I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half’, but the proprietors of the UK have tested the theory successfully with their EU referendum. Not that you would know it from reading the Guardian, the Financial Times or even, sad to say, Counterpunch and the rest of the Left-wing blogobubble, where a chorus of Influencers is celebrating the 18th Brumaire of Nigel Farage.

Articles Datacide 15 Interviews

David Cecil March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 0 Comments Berlin, David Cameron, Henri Lefebvre, multiculturalism, Robert Esposito, United Kingdom

Multiculturalism, Immunisation and Rhythm

An interview with Alexej Ulbricht (AU) in March 2015, conducted by Jonathan Nassim and Mikala Rasmussen (JN/MR), with introduction and

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.