Datacide - Magazine for Noise & Politics - Issue Nineteen

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Brand new issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise & politics - out November 2023.

The magazine for noise & politics is back with a new print edition. Features full color cover and a total of 68 pages in A4 format, investigating different aspects of countercultural music and overlaps with radical politics.
In this issue: Musique Concrète 1948, Situationist ideas in West Berlin 1967, Throbbing Gristle 1978, Nihil Fist 2023. Plus anti-fascism, anti-repression, plus Fiction & Poetry by Howard Slater, Dan Moss, Joke Lanz, Riccardo Balli, plus record reviews, graphics & art by Luke Hekate, lesekill, Joke Lanz, Zombieflesheater. "Party Lines - Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain" book review by Neil Transpontine + more!

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About this issue
Pandemic, war, inflation, apocalyptic scenarios about climate change and artificial intelligence, all connected with widespread bonkers conspiracy narratives and growing fascist sentiments - in this crisis environment we re-emerge with a new issue.

In it we’re unfolding a countercultural panorama, this time commencing in the mid-20th century with Howard Slater exploring the beginnings of the Electronic Disturbance Zone, multiple reflections of 1948 via the 1990s, sonic adumbrations of new social relations.

Christoph Fringeli then introduces a document from 1967 where situationist ideas popped up in the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in West Berlin and re-asserted a message we have underlined in datacide more than once, demanding a definitive break with Leninism in all its variations, particularly its kneejerk anti-imperialist ones.

At the same time the document shows that the revolutionary movement has not yet developed forms of organization that correspond to the advanced nature of capitalist society and the requirements of a real revolution - something that was true then and is true now.

From 1967 we move on to 1978 with Ian Trowell, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book Throbbing Gristle - An Endless Discontent, tracking the movements of Throbbing Gristle as they play their first gig up north at the aptly named Wakefield Industrial Training College. Uncanny overlaps of the timelines of TG’s operation and The Yorkshire Ripper’s killing spree reveal themselves.

The time window from the 90s to the present day is illuminated by Nihil Fist, as we’re printing the interview previously published in video form on our YouTube channel. In it we follow his activities since he appeared on the scene in the mid-90s as a speedcore artist and party organiser, over his releases on Praxis records, his political activism and his work as a radical lawyer.

This issue then moves into ficticious territory with stories and poetry by Joke Lanz, Dan Hekate, Howard Slater and Riccardo Balli and graphics and art by Saxenhammer, lesekill, Joke Lanz, Luke Hekate, Zombieflesheater.
Book and record reviews follow, as do the charts and a short report of our wider activities since the last issue.

Where are the cracks where we can seed not just discontent, but forms of communication and organisation that are adequate to the latest developments of capitalist society?