ROMA RIOT
A little bit of splendour and inauspicious history. “People asked me questions about tomatos robbing the vine and rotting on the vine and I had no idea what I was thinking about and abided in blank...
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One of the central events of 1999 was the conflict and then war in the then Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has happened over the last...
View ArticleNEW AGE POLICING
Biology is Ideology In 1999, as Datacide readers are sure to remember, JFK’s son John Junior joined the family of Dead Kennedys, flying his light aircraft straight down into the Atlantic. Mystery...
View ArticlePOST-MEDIA OPERATORS: “SOVEREIGN & VAGUE”
No one recognises these powers as their own (Why Theory?) We have to dispense with the idea that theorising occurs after the creative event; that a poem or a track or a text is made and then, as part...
View ArticleWE MEAN IT MAN:
PUNK ROCK AND ANTI-RACISM – or, DEATH IN JUNE NOT MYSTERIOUS The hoary debate about punk rock and politics was recently given a boost by the publication of Punk Rock: So What? edited by Roger Sabin....
View ArticlePraxis + Break/Flow
‘Communist’ Seven Inch Product Blueprint Side A Cornelius Cardew: Smash Smash The Social Contract Side B Royal Family & The Poor: Vaneigem Mix (Could have cut-up readings from Marx (see over) as...
View ArticleDREAMSTORY
Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut [Warner Brothers] “That’s what you say now, so at this moment you may even believe it.” (1) 1. A yuppie nightmare movie segues into the enigma of its director’s death....
View ArticleGuy Debord
by Anselm Jappe translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith with assistance from the author (University of California Press 1999) The situationists declared somewhere that boredom was...
View ArticleJames St.James – Disco Bloodbath
The Story of Michael Alig – King of the Club Kids Sceptre 1999 This is a true story from New York City, ca. mid-90’s. It’s the story of a final episode of glam club culture and a story of drugs, a...
View ArticleDatacide 7 – record reviews
more record reviews from the millenium… Panacea Beware The Future Position Chrome 41 Panacea now seems to operate as if drum and bass never existed as a renegade genre, dispensing with the rule based...
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