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ln our second issue we turn our focus to the frontiers of crisis and capital in China. We expand our conceptual framework here, digging more deeply into some of our central theoretical concerns while also providing coherent narratives of historical events and contemporary faultlines. As always, we include interviews and translations alongside our own original work. This issue also contains, for the first time, two commissioned articles by authors outside of Chuǎng, each a regional specialist focusing on some portion of China’s borderlands. We take these borders as our starting point. This issue therefore begins with the expanding frontier of capital itself, with our second long-form article on the economic history of China, “Red Dust: The Transition to Capitalism in China,” detailing the process by which the socialist developmental regime was dismantled and incorporated into the capitalist economy. We then move on to China’s literal frontiers, our two intakes exploring tensions in Xinjiang and Vietnam. Finally, we include a series of pieces exploring the frontiers of struggle and repression within Chinese industry.
October 2008 | 216 pages | ISSN: 1943-8281 Bring out your dead Introduction to the debate between Theorie Communiste and Gilles Dauvé When Insurrections Die Gilles Dauvé Normative History and the Communist Essence of the Proletariat Théorie Communiste Human, all too human? Gilles Dauvé Love of Labour? Love of Labour Lost… Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic Much Ado About Nothing Théorie Communiste Afterword
Past, present and future of the Endnotes project. THE HOLDING PATTERN Since 2007, states have been forced to undertake extraordinary actions. Bailouts have shifted private debts onto public balance sheets. And the world’s central banks are spending billions of dollars, every month, to convince capital to invest in a trickle. So far these state interventions have managed to stall the unfolding crisis. Yet its petrification has been the petrification of class struggle. Like the crisis itself, the struggles of 2011–2013 entered a holding pattern, unable to venture beyond the weak unity—defined by anti-austerity, anti-police, and anti-corruption sentiments—that was established in the movement of the squares. THE LOGIC OF GENDER Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history of the capitalist mode of production, and survey the dynamics of gender in the recent crisis, which we characterize as arise of the abject. A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS A reading of the 2011 England riots and British student movement against a backdrop of decades-long social processes of abjection, class decomposition and the tendential disintegration of the wage relation. LOGISTICS, COUNTERLOGISTICS AND THE COMMUNIST PROSPECT Jasper Bernes An inquiry into the consequences of “the logistics revolution” for contemporary struggles. In light of the disaggregation and diffusion of productive capacity across the globe, direct seizure of the means of production no longer describes an implementable project for the majority of proletarians. New horizons and prospects materialise. THE LIMIT POINT OF CAPITALIST EQUALITY Chris Chen Without taking identity, cultural difference, or normative "privilege" as fundamental categories of anti-racist analysis, this article sketches a racial genealogy of superfluous populations as a constitutive feature of the emergence and spatial expansion of capitalism. The possibility of abolishing "race" as superfluity is therefore bound to contemporary anti-capitalist struggles, and vice-versa. SPONTANEITY, MEDIATION, RUPTURE How can we recover the key concepts of revolutionary theory today, that is, after the end of the workers’ movement? We offer the following reflections on three concepts — spontaneity, mediation, rupture — as an attempt to re-fashion the core of revolutionary theory, for our times. By taking cognisance of the gap that separates us from the past, we hope to extract from past theories something of use to us in the present.
Journal of the "transgressive" industrial culture type with a mixed bag of contributions, musically on a full length CD, in written form on 165+ pages. Edited by Robert H. King in 1993. Music feat. Controlled Bleeding, Soviet France, Lull (Mick Harris), Techno Animal, Nocturnal Emissions, Greater Than One and others. The book compiles articles and interviews (with Annie Sprinkle, Adam Parfrey, Stelarc, Mark Pauline) and also features Derek Jarman, Robert Anton Wilson, Adi Newton, erm... Boyd Rice, and more....BACK IN STOCK!
Datacide Nineteen back in stock now.Features include The Electronic Disturbance Zone Pt. 1 by Howard Slater, Vietnam, the Third World and the Self-Deception of the Left - a stiuationist document from Berlin from 1967, Industrial Music for Industrial People - an excerpt from Ian Trowell's book on Throbbing Gristle, Interview with Nihil Fist, Hundsteinweg - a text by Joke Lanz, Distant Sky - a new short story by Dan Hekate, The Séance Continues - new poems by Howard Slater, Book Reviews, Record Reviews DJ Charts and more! Check out the table of content HERE. (will open different window)
OUT NOW! ISBN 978-3-948332-18-1 Features include: Christoph Fringeli: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919 Ross Wolfe: Marxism Contra Justice - A Critique of Egalitarian Ideology Joke Lanz: Ghosts & Handbags - A short Travel Report from the Japanese Underworld Matthew Hyland:Masterless Mouths poems by Howard Slater fiction by Dan Hekate news roundup by Nemeton record reviews by Low Entropy, Saxenhammer, Prole Sector, Controlled Weirdness, Christoph Fringeli book reviews: Neil Transpontine: A Fascist Tulpa in the White House? - Right-wing ‘Meme Magic’ and the Rise of Trump Frankenstein, or the 8-Bit Prometheus - Micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza records 17th anniversary by Riccardo Balli Dale Street: Lions Led by Jackals – Stalinism in the International Brigade, by Christoph Fringeli Christoph Fringeli: No borders, no fatherland! France – What’s New for the Left? Activities since last issue Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy graphics and illustrations by dybbuk, lesekill, Darkam, Sansculotte
Now available again: Datacide Eleven, originally from 2011. datacide eleven originally appeared in February 2011, a little bit over two years after the predecessor issue which had been published in October 2008 and had been accompanied with a conference in Berlin. Issue eleven contains some of the papers presented at the 2008 conference (those of John Eden, Stewart Home and Alexis Wolton) as well as then-new material. Between the two issues was the launch of a new datacide web site (then part of the c8 orbit, now to be found at https://datacide-magazine.com) and a number of other activities, largely event-based, both musical and in the form of talks, sometimes as a combination of the two. datacide eleven itself was launched with a number of talks taking place over two days at Cagliostro, the bar and meeting point at Ostkreuz - then also the location of the Praxis store - and a party taking place at Subversiv with Kovert, Baseck, DJ Balli, Cannibal Brothers, Nemeton, LT and Christoph Fringeli. For this 2022 reprint the issue was carefully re-edited which chiefly concerned formatting issues. None of the content has been altered besides obvious typos and mistakes, but the layout had to be adjusted to the bound rather than stapled finish, and to take advantage of the colour (inside) cover and to give a bit more space to some articles a total of four pages were added. A new back page image was provided by Luke Hekate.Price includes shipping.
NEW PRICE! Standard Subscription: 3 issues for 20 euro incl. international shipping in Europe (EU + Norway, Switzerland and UK), 2 issues (Rest of the world) Our new standard subscription starts with the current or next issue (please specify) and includes the Almanac for Noise & Politics if you want. Usually this means you get 3 datacides and one almanac as soon as they come out. If you prefer to receive only the next 4 magazines, please specify (“magazine only”).
Super.Subscription: €100 for all music and print appearing. You are sent all issues of datacide, the almanac, related books, and all Praxis and related record releases for two years and at least up to the retail value of at least €110 (so if not enough releases come out in two years, the subscription will automatically extended), all including free shipping in the whole of Europe (EU plus Norway, Switzerland, UK).If you live elsewhere please get in touch about options - unfortunately due to massive increases in shipping cost we (currently) can offer the Supersub only within Europe. Releases appearing within about a month from each other will be pooled to be shipped together. The subscription also includes all digital releases, as well as catalog mail-outs, digital versions and exclusive downloads. NEW PERKS: -The subscription now also includes 10% off all prices in the Praxis Online Shop! You'll receive a re-usable discount code.[The only exceptions are: Subscriptions, pre-sales and new books by German publishers due to the legally fixed prices on the book market ("Buchpreisbindung")]. - New Subscribers until End of June 2026 will receive a welcome package, incl. the latest Praxis release or a back catalogue item of your choice (if available), the latest Datacide (or available back issue of your choice)- Download codes of the latest four releases on the Praxis Bandcamp and the last couple of eBooks.
Journal published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies good condition
Contents: NEWS & UPDATES The Reverend: Education in England - An Update Marc Hekate: Keith Robinson Desert Storm Obituary Matthew Hyland: Notes from Non-Existence - Brexit vs. The Proletariat FEATURES Alexia Elliott: Poisoned Fruit in the Walled GardenThe Alt RIght: A Growing Problem, But Not a New One MH: Armed Competitiveness - The Working Class Gets Called Up to Fight Itself - Notes on a Recruitment Crisis Howard Slater: ‘Comrade Doctor’ On David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ David Cooper: On Mystification (1978) Strelnikov: Siege MentalityMason, Manson, Moynihan - On the fringes of American Nazism BOOK REVIEWS Neil Transpontine: Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai Howard Slater: Demented Idioms - Schizo Culture, Event & Book Matthew Hyland: Eat Like an Idealist! The Assassin - An Association of Musical Marxists Reader Christoph Fringeli: Undeclared Wars with IsraelJeffrey Herf on East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989 and their role in the Middle East Christoph Fringeli: Far-Left Press Coverage of the 2016 Anti-Semitism Row in the Labour Party and other Leftist Groups COMIX Simon Lejeune: A Breakcore Saga Sansculotte: Overdosed TEXTS DJ Balli: An Addition to the Guinness World Records Mme Tlank, image: Clinical Wasteman: But What of the Ghost? RECORD REVIEWS by Prole Sector, Zombieflesheater, Low Entropy, Controlled Weirdness, Saxenhammer + DJ Charts + Activities Since the Last Issue VISUALS Darkam, dybbuk,Guinea Pigs, Matthieu Bourel, Nevre,Oppositaer
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.
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).
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.
A new issue of Aufheben! Again with three large articles: Obama's Pivot to China Workers on the Experience of Work Disaster Communism
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.
Half size version of Datacide 14 with spine. Identical content with the normal edition, but the layout has been slightly tweaked and some mistakes have been corrected. The normal A4 magazine version is also still available HERE
The Battle for Hyde Park - ruffians, radicals and ravers, 1855-1994. 20th Anniversary Edition. 20 years after the original printing of this pamphlet by Practical History, this has been reprinted in a slightly expanded version by Past Tense! Grab it for one euro, or add it as a free item at chechout if your order is over 20 euro.
Features: When Will We Leave the 20th Century?; Dancing with Death: The Excremental, the Sacred & Ecstatic Community in Free Party Culture; Archeology of the Radical Internet: Reflections on the early European Counter Network in the Age of ‘Networked Social Movements’; ‘They Hate Us, We Hate Them’: Resisting Police Corruption and Violence in Hackney in the 1980s and 1990s; Journeys in the Naked City. Adventures in New York Before the Rain; Wild Ride> Subcultural Rumblings in the Pacific Northwest _ form of: mutant vehicle; German Data Angst. Fiction and Poetry: Cut-Up-Marx; Incorrect Classification Possible; The Bodyshop; Star Spores: The Computerised City; Star Spores: The Magnetic Timetable. Print Reviews: Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora; Sound System Culture: Celebrating Hudersfield’s Sound Systems; G.P.O. v G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art of Trial; The Rabbit Hole and other writings by Cyrus Bozorgmehr; Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion; Die Revolution war für mich ein grosses Abenteuer. Paul Mattick im Gespräch mit Michael Buckmiller; More Years for the Locust: The Origins of the SWP; Das Israelpseudos der Pseudolinken; Emperor Palpatine. Music: Invincible Tedium; Shuffle from Plunderphonics: ‘Chris Cutler’ Remixed; Vinyl Meltdown, Side B; Datacide Activities Since the Last Issue. News: Endless War; Surveillance, Control and Repression; Social Media and Internet Surveillance; Music Industry and Copyright; Uganda – Anti-Homosexuality Bill Update. Plus: Record Reviews, Charts, Comics and Illustrations, as well as the lives and times of Bloor Schleppy.
Editorial, by Occupied London Crisis, city and democracy, by Ali B. Repressive memories, by Dawn Paley A movement of antagonism in the city, by Alessio Lunghi Heroes of the street, by Tucker Landesman One message leads to another, by John Berger One revolt leads to another, by Occupied London On contours of urban revolts in Maribor, by Gal Kirn Strategic embellishment and civil war, by Andy Merrifield Hello Dr. Strangelove, by Dimitris Dalakoglou Moments of crisis, by Jacken Waters Statement on the ‘dismantling’ of the Golden Dawn by the greek state, by Occupied London
Issue 2, February 2014 The second issue of the Sic journal is now available.You can order copies here. Not an Editorial Woland, The Uneven Dynamics of the Era of Riots Leon de Mattis, Communist Measures R.S., The Conjuncture Woland, Rise of the (Non-)Subject R.S., The Movement Against the French Pension Reform Rocamadur, The Feral Underclass Hits the Streets Rust Bunny Collective, Under the Riot Gear Research & Destroy, Limit Analysis and its Limits Agents of Chaos, Without You, Not a Single Cog Turns
2013-14 issue of Aufheben with 3 longer articles - After the Crisis - 5'000 years of debt? - Fracking Struggles
Release date: 12 October 2013. 76 pages. Datacide: Introduction Nemeton: Infiltration and Agent Provocateurs; Vision Tech; Endless War; Surveillance, Control and Repression CF: NSU Update Two in London: UK Anti-Fascist Round Up Comrade Omega: Crisis in the SWP, or: Weiningerism in the UK David Cecil: Confessions of an Accidental Activist Neil Transpontine: Spiral Tribe Interview with Mark Harrison Neil Transpontine: ‘Revolt of the Ravers’-The Movement Against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain, 1993-95 Split Horizon: What is This Future? Fabian Tompsett: Wikipedia-A Vernacular Encyclopedia Howard Slater: Shared Vertigo Dan Hekate: Crystal Distortion Howard Slater: Cut-Up Marx Howard Slater: EARTH ‘A RUN RED Marcel Stoetzler: Identity, Commodity and Authority: Two New Books about Horkheimer and Adorno Nemeton: Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency (book review) Christoph Fringeli: One Night in Stammheim. Helge Lehmann: Die Todesnacht von Stammheim – Eine Untersuchung (book review) Christoph Fringeli: Anton Shekovtsov, Paul Jackson (eds.): White Power Music – Scenes of the Extreme Right Cultural Resistence (book review) CF: Press reviews John Eden: Emencified Shrill Out: Nomex at the Controls Alexis Wolton: Vinyl Meltdown, Prt. 1 Record reviews by Zombieflesheater, Nemeton and Kovert DJ Charts Matthieu Bourel: Rioter Sansculotte: Overdosed Plus: The Lives and Times of Bloor Schleppy