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Contents: BREXIT MEANS… WHAT?HAPLESS IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCESA number of left groups and individuals campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union in the recent referendum. We argue that the Brexit campaign, and the referendum itself, its results and its implementation, have been one with a victory of the ruling class against us. The implementation of Brexit will negatively affect solidarity among workers and radical protesters, setting back our strength and potentials to overturn capitalism. Many people in the radical left were blinded by the ideological forms of our capitalist relations, the reification of our human interactions, to the point of accepting a victory of the far right with acquiescence, or even collaborating with it. THE RISE OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES:REIFICATION OF DEFEAT AS THE BASIS OF EXPLANATIONConspiracy theories have become more widespread in recent years. As populist explanations, they offer themselves as radical analyses of ‘the powerful’ – i.e., the operation of capital and its political expressions. One of the features that is interesting about such conspiracy theories therefore is that they reflect a critical impulse. We suggest that at least part of the reason for their upsurge (both in the past and in recent years) has to do with social conditions in which movements reflecting class struggles have declined or are seen to be defeated. We trace the rise of conspiracy theories historically and then focus on the most widespread such theory today – the idea that 9/11 was an inside job. We suggest that one factor in the sudden rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories was the failure and decline of the movement against the war in Iraq. CHINA: THE PERILS OF BORROWING SOMEONE ELSE’S SPECTACLESWe argue that the transition facing China is the shift from the export of commodities to export of capital. This transition would mark a major step in transforming China from what we have termed a mere epicentre in the global economy to its establishment as a distinct second pole of within the global accumulation capital – an emerging antipode to that of the US. The group Chuǎng argue that recent Aufheben analyses are ‘too optimistic’ concerning China’s ability to maintain economic growth rates and fuel global capital accumulation. We reproduce their article as an Intake. In our response, we contend Chuǎng are unable even to recognise what we are suggesting let alone argue against it. This is because in making their analysis of the current economic situation in China, they have borrowed the spectacles of neo-liberal economics. They have thereby inadvertently adopted a myopic and ideologically circumscribed perspective that contains crucial blind-spots.
Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the most influential member of the Situationist International, the avant-garde group that triggered the May 1968 revolt in France. His book The Society of the Spectacle is by some considered the most important theoretical book of the twentieth century. But while Debord's written work is some of the most notorious in the world of political and cultural radicality, deemed "the cornerstone cliché of postmodernism," his films have until now remained tantalizingly inaccessible. After being withdrawn from circulation for nearly two decades (by Debord himself, to call attention to the 1984 assassination of the producer of the films, Gerard Lebovici), all six films were featured in a special "Guy Debord Retrospective" at the 2001 Venice Film Festival and re-released in France in 2002. The most famous of the films is Debord's cinematic adaptation of his own book, The Society of the Spectacle. As passages from the book are read in voiceover the text is illuminated, via direct illustration or various types of ironic contrast, by clips from Russian and Hollywood features (Potemkin, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Johnny Guitar, etc.), TV commercials, softcore porn, newsreels, and documentary footage. Some of the other films evoke Debord's adventures in the bohemian underworld of Paris during the 1950s, and in others Debord attacks the film medium itself, directly challenging the viewer by critiquing the traditional separation of spectacle and spectator. Ken Knabb's translation of Debord's Complete Cinematic Works accompanies the long-awaited English versions of these film.The scripts are illustrated with 62 stills, and Debord's own annotations help elucidate the subtleties of these astonishing works, which are like nothing else in cinema history. Paperback edition. AK Press, ISBN 1-902593-83-9
Important book by council communist Paul Mattick!
Cedrik Fermont & Dimitri Della Faille: Not Your World Music - Noise in South East Asia {second edition without CD, and at half the price!} A groundbreaking book about noise music in South East AsiaArt, Politics, Identity, Gender and Global Capitalism Written and edited by Cedrik Fermont and Dimitri della Faille. This book is the FIRST MAJOR PUBLICATION on noise, electroacoustic,industrial, experimental music and sound art in the ASEAN countries (including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam). The book features: Historical, political and sociological essays; Exclusive interviews with artists and organizers; Extensive bibliography and discography; And more to discover soon! The accompanying album can be found on the Syrphe bandcamp: <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=801999823/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=e32c14/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://syrphe.bandcamp.com/album/not-your-world-music-noise-in-south-east-asia">Not Your World Music: Noise in South East Asia by Compilation</a></iframe>
Back in stock!! The Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 is made up of a total of five sections that go into depth on some topics previously examined in datacide. Some of the texts have been previously published, some are new and exclusive or translations. The first section compiles material about and by Nomex, noise artist and film maker, including a discography of his label Adverse. The second section consists of two critiques of the Left from a communist point of view, one targeting the knee-jerk anti-Imperialism still prevalent in many sections of the Left, the other is an excerpt from a critique of anarchism by Luther Blissett. The third section is concerned with our ongoing investigations and denouncements of far Right infiltration in popular culture. We see this as an integral part of antifascist activity. Featured here is the article From Subculture to Hegemony - Transversal Strategies of the New Right in Neofolk and Martial Industrial by Christoph Fringeli from datacide eleven.Part 4 consists of an appraisal of the Vision label which I ran out of Basel, Switzerland in 1986-1992. The main text is an edited English translation of a contribution to the book Heute und danach by Lurker Grand and André P. Tschan, which appeared in 2012. As it is 30 years ago now that the first Vision appeared it makes sense to document this pre-history of Praxis, which was founded in 1992 after I disbanded Vision.To illustrate this further and make a connection to the present we reprint Die Menschenhauttrommel (the human skin drum) by Alex Buess from the Vision zine Flash Team Report (Vision 18) from 1988. The final part of this almanac is a catalogue of our exclusive titles, back issues of datacide and available books.
The fifteenth edition of the magazine for noise & politics, released in may 2016 News:Endless War; Infiltration and Agent Provocateurs; Surveillance, Control and Repression (Nemeton)Neo-Nazis, the National Socialist Underground and the State (CF)Why Do Refugees Want To Go To England? (Jeff 23) Features:Clive Acid: Towards a New African FascismMulticulturalism, Immunisation and Rhythm:Interview with Alexej Ulbricht conducted by Jonathan Nassim Mikala Rasmussen, with introduction and additional questions by David CecilHoward Slater: Last Survivors or First MutantsNotes on Surplus PopulationThe Fool: A Deadly MediterraneanTechnical Trials of Modern WarfareHoward Slater: Sincere Genesis – On Félix Guattari and GroupsInterview with Osha NeumannThe Reverend: Marketisation of Mass Education in EnglandA Brief HistoryMatthew Hyland: A Cry Against Help & 13 Protheses on Carelessness of the Self Book reviews:Neil Transpontine: ‘These Days are not to be Missed’ 1990s Rave and Club Culture in Fiction Peter Sedgwick: Psycho Politics – Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the Future of Mass Psychiatry (CF) Marcel Bois, Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin. Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik – Eine Gesamtdarstellung (CF) Fiction:Dan Hekate: Pigeon Music:Guoda Diryte: Fluxus and DIY Concerts Record Reviews by Nemeton, Zombieflesheater, CF, Prole Sector and Controlled Weirdness Datacide Activities Since the Last IssueDJ Charts + illustration by Guinea Pigs Comix:Simon Lejeune/Olivier Noel: ObeknaSansculotte: Overdosed Please consider a subscription - only 20 euro for 3 issues (Europe) or 2 issues (rest of the world).
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Get ready for Maximum Rocknroll #392! It’s the January 2016 issue, and we’re starting off the new year with style: Philadelphia’s BLANK SPELL riff on their irreplicable and twisted brand of hardcore and contemplate punk worldwide, and Mitch Cardwell lands an interview with ANDY HUMAN, who dishes on survival skills in the Bay Area reptoid reality. On top of that, Julaya from G.L.O.S.S. wrote an epic of a tour diary spanning the Olympia hardcore band’s six week cross-continental voyage this Fall. We also got an interview with Detroit label Salinas Records on their relationship with the city and punk integrity; a complete history of Toronto’s short-lived yet impactful DIY venue S.H.I.B.G.B.’s; East Anglian hardcore totems VOLUNTEERS; TEX FOX, a hardcore punk provocateur out of Beirut, Lebanon; and a profile of ROOM 101, New Orleans’ busiest one-man band. Oh, let’s not forget: an announcement of our Still Not Quiet on the Western Front fest (February 11-14, save the date!), photo spreads from London’s Static Shock Weekend and the Collective Delusion/Mass Hysteriaexhibition in Austin, another round of contributions from your favorite and most hated columnists alike, and an exceptionally loaded reviews section (in which many of this year’s best records are covered). Pick this one up, it’s a must-read.
We Called Each Other Comrade is a great book to read within the context of contemporary activist discussions on the construction of radical institutions; parallel social, economic and political structures that can challenge dominant systems of power and injustice. Both an exhaustive study and also including narrative elements, the book, published by PM Press, follows the establishment and nearly century long political trajectory of Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, a Chicago-based publishing house launched in 1886 by printing Unitarian tracts, evolving over decades into a publishing house voicing the radical ideas around the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), continuing to publish progressive books and materials well into the 20th century. We Called Each Other Comrade is uniquely interesting book as it illustrates a fascinating example of a progressive project adjusting and changing honestly in concert with deepening and complex relationships with social movements. One key publishing project outlined is the emergence and development of the critically important International Socialist Review, which became a key space for political debates and expression of the American left at the beginning of the 20th century. A magazine that achieved significant national distribution, firmly on the left of the American Socialist Party in the period leading up to World War I, the magazine took a strongly anti-war position and also published texts by writers part of anarchist organizing efforts. Writers who contributed to the project included Mary “Mother” Jones, the Irish-American schoolteacher and labour / community organizer who was a IWW co-founder along with another journal contributor Bill Haywood, a labour organizer involved in some key workers strikes, such as those by the Western Federation of Miners and also the Lawrence textile strike in Massachusetts, moments that continue to define American labour historical identity until now. photo : Lawrence textile strike, 1912, Massachusetts. Aside from the International Socialist Review, the Kerr Publishing Company was also one the first publishing house to translate and make available in the US many key texts by Karl Marx, while also publishing Industrial Socialism by Bill Haywood andFrank Bohn, One Big Union by William Trautmann and also May Walden’s Socialism and the home. Also key to the importance of We Called Each Other Comrade, is that it looks into the major state repression that progressive activists and institutions faced during the violent nationalism of World War I, given that both the International Socialist Review and the Kerr Publishing Company took a strongly anti-war position and fully joined the movement against the American entrance into the killing fields, the book outlining : A vital oppositional voice and institutional center for the prewar American movement’s left wing, Charles H. Kerr & Company could not avoid the storm. It, too, became a target for war-bred harassment and state repression not long after U.S. entry into the fray. The firm survived as well but came away severely injured. The majority of movement publishing ventures did not weather the first year of American involvement. The company belonged to a diverse social and political movement. Extending ideologically and politically from the authentically anarcho-syndicalist elements within the IWW that disavowed politics, that movement spanned a range from those who favored dual strategies of parliamentary campaigns and militant direct action to those who concentrated on gaining stable, respectable electoral strength and office through legal means. The call for class struggle against war, quite distinct from the dissenting voices of various pacifist opponents, clearly marked all factions of the movement as immediate targets as soon as the country became a belligerent. Those deeply opposed to socialism readily took advantage of and used the era’s heightened jingoist and xenophobic sentiment to isolate and hobble the left as treasonous “slackers,” “war resisters,” … “anti-American,” or simply “troublemakers,” The political stances of the various movement groupings up to and well into the war made such attacks inevitable. Outspokenly oppositional on the issue of war and peace, Charles H. Kerr & company would not pass unnoticed. In this section on the war We Called Each Other Comrade details the various legal challenges and draconian legislation passed by US lawmakers that targeted anti-war and left voices including the publishing house, including the banning of Kerr Publishing Company from using US national postal services for significant periods during the war. Also detailed in the book are many of the organizational strategies and frameworks developed by the Kerr Publishing Company, that shifted, adapted and changed over time to respond to shifting political and economic realities. In many ways the Kerr Publishing Company is an example in cooperative economic funding, grassroots crowd-funding from a different era. For these details the book is important for read for current day activists working on, developing and exploring various ideas around models for radical institutions. Kerr Publishing Company is illustrated clearly as a project that can illuminate the possibilities for detail-driven, membership-based organization, while also the limitations faced by such models when under state repression. We Called Each Other Comrade is an important read generally speaking because it illustrates and points to alternative, radical narratives of American history, celebrated in the book’s pages are not politicians and businessmen, but grassroots voices from social movements that were instrumental to the existing legal infrastructure around workers rights that union movements are still fighting to defend. Also the book is a clear illustration on the importance of alternative publishing in establishing a space for counter narratives, a political space for ideas that challenge the authoritarian frameworks of political and economic power. some minor storage wear, hence reduced price!
At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane, which sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular with young girls, but pilloried by conservative critics and readers. MacLane scandalized people with her memoir and her two subsequent books. She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist. Some critics have suggested that even by today's standards, MacLane's writing is raw, honest, unflinching, self-aware, sensual and extreme. She wrote openly about egoism and her own self-love, about sexual attraction and love for other women, and even about her desire to marry the Devil.Cravan was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements. From 1911 to 1915 he published a critical magazine, Maintenant! (“Now!”) which appeared in five issues. It was gathered together and reprinted by Eric Losfeld in 1971 as J’étais Cigare in the dadaist collection Le Désordre. The magazine was designed to cause sensation: his rough vibrant poetry, and provocative, anarchistic lectures and public appearances (often degenerating into drunken brawls) also earned him the admiration of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, André Breton, and other young artists and intellectuals.
John Holloway's previous book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists and scholars about the most effective methods of going beyond capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected array of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction - the opposition between the capitalist labour we undertake in our jobs and the drive towards doing what we consider necessary or desirable. Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism now. John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. His publications include Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010), Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto, 2005), Zapatista! Rethinking Revolution in Mexico(co-editor, Pluto, 1998) and Global Capital, National State and The Politics of Money (co-editor, 1994).
Endnotes is a communist theoretical journal produced by a discussion group of the same name based in Britain and the US Issue 4 contents include; 20th Century Balance Sheet, Black Lives Matter, Balkan Spring, A Suburban Vendée, Abject Subjects
This is the first ever English-language anthology collecting texts and documents from the still little-known Scandinavian part of the Situationist movement. The book covers over three decades of writing, from Asger Jorn’s Luck and Chance published in 1953, to the statements of the Situationist Antinational set up by Jens Jørgen Thorsen and J.V. Martin in 1974. The writings collected gravitate around the year 1962 when the Situationist movement went through it’s most dynamic and critical moments, and the disagreements about the relationship between art and politics came to a culmination, resulting in exclusions and the split of the Situationist International. The Situationists did not win, and the almost forgotten Scandinavian fractions even less so. The book broadens the understanding of the Situationist movement by bringing into view the wild and unruly activities of the Scandinavian fractions of the organisation and the more artistic, experimental, and actionist attitude that characterised them. They did, nevertheless, constitute a decisive break with the ruling socio-economic order through their project of bringing into being new forms of life. Only an analysis of the multifaceted and often contradictory Situationist revolution will allow us to break away from the dull contemplation of yet another document of Debord’s archive or yet another drawing by Jorn. There is a lot to be learned from the history of revolutionary failure. It is along these lines that this book points forward beyond the crisis-ridden capitalist order that survives today. Texts by: Asger Jorn, Jørgen Nash, Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Bauhaus Situationniste, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Gruppe SPUR, Dieter Kunzelman, J.V. Martin, and Guy Debord. Translated by: Peter Shield, James Manley, Anja Buchele, Matthew Hyland, Fabian Tompsett, and Jakob Jakobsen. Bio: Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and political theorist. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and has published books and articles on the revolutionary tradition and modern art. Jakob Jakobsen is an artist and political organizer. He ran the Copenhagen Free University, cofounded the artist run TV station tvtv and has participated in exhibitions all over the world. 304 pages, 5.75 x 8
The truth behind the legend of the heroic guerilla, Ernesto Che Guevara. A Kaleidoscope reprint of a Red Lion Press publication from Montreal 1997
Guter Zustand Henry Rollins translated into Finnish!
Unkant Reader : The Assassin includes excerpts from all the Unkant publications released since we started out in 2011: Ben Watson, Adorno for Revolutionaries • Sean Bonney, Happiness : Poems After Rimbaud • Ray Challinor, The Struggle for Hearts and Minds : Essays on the Second World War • Dave Black & Chris Ford, 1839 : The Chartist Insurrection • Ben Watson, Blake in Cambridge • Jim Higgins, More Years for the Locust : The Origins of the SWP • Ken Fox, Azmud : An Oily Saga on the Surface of the Word Bath in 5 Expired Generations • Andy Wilson (ed), Cosmic Orgasm : The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu • Dave Renton, Socialism From Below : Writings from an Unfinished Tradition • Esther Leslie, Derelicts : Thought Worms from the Wreckage • Rob Dellar, Splitting in Two : Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion • Dave Black (ed), Helen Macfarlane : Red Republican. Priorlectics : Also within are the complete pamphlets : Ian Land, The SWP vs Lenin • Ben Watson, Music, Violence, Truth • and an extract from Andy Wilson, Faust : Stretch Out Time. AMM Journal : There are also 100s of pages of scores, photographs, poems, paintings and images, essays, comics, reviews, notices and manifestos from the AMM, its friends and supporters. Featured articles include essays on Comic Book Marxism • Jeff Keen Flix • Critique of the Situationist Dialectic • Wilhelm Reich and Class Consciousness • The State of Scripts • Cartoon Trumpets and Horseshit • The 60s Counterculture, and the Culture of the Left, and more. Contributors : Jules Alford • Ana-Maria Avram • Derek Bailey • Dave Black • Sean Bonney • Sharon Borthwick • Sky Budgen • Dunya Bueler • Marie-Angelique Bueler • Stuart Calton • Louise Challice • Eugene Chadbourne • Ray Challinor • Sophie Clare • Ged Colgan • Eleanor Crook • Rob Dellar • THF Drenching • Iancu Dumitrescu • Evil Dick • Simon H. Fell • Keith Fisher • Chris Ford • Ken Fox • Richard Hemmings • Jim Higgins • I'd M Thfft Able • Stefan Jaworzyn • Asger Jorn • jwcurry • Jeff Keen • Ian Land • Daphne Lawless • Esther Leslie • Johan Lif • Steven Lowery • Manchester Left Writers • Len Massey • David Mills • Elkka Reign Nyoukis • Dan O'Donnell • Guillaume Ollendorff • Out To Lunch • Harvey Pekar • Ed Piskor • Michel Prigent • JH Prynne • The Psychedelic Bolsheviks • Tom Raworth • Dave Renton • Jenny Russell • Peter Shield • Andy Shone • Sonic Pleasure • Verity Spott • Luke Staunton • Michael Tencer • John Tursi • Ben, Iris and Mordecai Watson • Andy and Huxley Wilson • Susann Witt-Stahl.
A new issue of Aufheben! Again with three large articles: Obama's Pivot to China Workers on the Experience of Work Disaster Communism
Robert Kurz: No Revolution Anywhere, published by B.M.Chronos Minor storage wear
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BACK IN STOCK! EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS is a complete collection of the first ten issues of datacide - the magazine for noise & politics which originally appeared from 1997 to 2008. A major project in the works for quite some time, this is a collection of the complete issues 1-10 of datacide, which originally appeared from 1997-2008. Titled “EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS”, the 364 page A4-size volume collects unique material, most of which has been out of print for many years, charting a one-of-a-kind history of the counter-cultures associated with electronic music and free festivals. The book itself has been out of print for a few years now, and is finally back in stock! ISBN 978-3-948332-01-3 “The free space of the party met the free space of the page and then you got a dynamism that encouraged expression and perversions and tangents because the covers held it together as a nomadic movement and you were convinced that music had catalysed it all and that music was somehow inherently political as it sidestepped rhetoric and dogma, and absented us from control addicts and the free space of the page was a kind of historic party, a kind of invisible college, a launching pad for driftage.” Flint Michigan EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS - a decade of noise & politics: datacide magazine issues 1-10 also contains introductions specifically written for the book release by Flint Michigan, Christoph Fringeli, Nemeton, and Dan Hekate as well as an extensive index. Resellers please enquire about further discounts.
Almanac for Noise & Politics 2015 If you’re already familiar with datacide magazine and our related record label for extreme electronic music - Praxis - then you’re familiar with the efforts we’ve made over the last two decades to continually explore the intersections of radical politics and underground rave culture, experimental and extreme electronic music, moments of free spaces and momentary freak-outs and how these can be represented on the page and through the speakers. If not, this may be a good place to start. Either way, the Almanac for noise & politics 2015 contains a selection of articles and excerpts from various issues of datacide, as well as a peek into the activities of the Praxis label and its offshoots. This first edition is meant to be a brief introduction to the wide range of topics covered in datacide. Articles include: Post-Media Operators by Howard Slater/Eddie Miller/Flint Michigan, No Stars here (track -1) by TechNET, A Loop Da Loop Era – Towards an (Anti-)history of Rave by Neil Transpontine, Radical Intersections by Christoph Fringeli, Vinyl Meltdown by Alexis Wolton, Plague in this Town by Matthew Hyland, Just Say Non – Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice by whomakesthenazis.com, Interview with Christoph Fringeli/Praxis Records from Objection to Procedure, a new short story by Dan Hekate, as well as a commented catalogue. This is interspersed by new visual work by Matthieu Bourel (cover), Lynx, Sansculotte, Tóng Zhi, and Zombieflesheater! Full colour cover and 104 inside pages in A6 format!