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It's the 2017 London Radical Bookfair tomorrow, Saturday 24 June, at Goldsmiths in New Cross. Datacide, magazine of noise and politics , has a stall and will be selling the new issue - Number 16. Contents include a critical review article by me on the book 'Angry White People'  about the English Defence Leagure and Luton.  All the cool cats will be heading to Datacide stall at the London Radical Bookfair

This Friday (23 October) I will be saying a few words at the launch of the new Datacide book, Everything Else is Even More Ridiculous, which brings together the first 10 issues of the noise and politics zine published between 1997 and 2008. It takes place at Housmans bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 (round the corner from Kings Cross station). Full details: Datacide - the Magazine for Noise & Politics - presents the release of two new books with short talks by Datacide writers Stewart Home, Neil Transpontine and Christoph Fringeli EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS a decade of noise & politics – datacide issues 1-10 A major project in the works for quite some time, this is a complete reprint of the issues 1-10 of datacide, which originally appeared from 1997-2008. Titled “EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS”, the 364 page 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 a...

I probably should have mentioned by now that the latest issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - was published last October. Loads of good stuff, including an article by me on the 'Archaeology of the Radical Internet' about the early 1990s European Counter Network. Also material from Howard Slater, John Eden, Stewart Home, Controlled Weirdness, Dan Hekate, Nemeton, David Cecil, Hannah Lammin, Christoph Fringeli and more. The full contents and some of the texts are online at Datacide , but you should really try and get hold of the 76 page printed version for the full effect.

Back in December 2013, The Wire magazine featured this blog in its 'Unofficial Channels' column: (from The Wire, December 2013 -  nb John Eden is incorrectly described here as the publisher of Datacide, though he is a contributor to it) The item was based on a short interview with me by Dan Barrow, which I've reproduced below as it sets out some of my thoughts on 'History is Made at Night' in a bit more detail: How did you come to start the blog? What kind of interests fed into it? I stated the blog in early 2007. The name came from a byline on a poster for ‘The Last Days of Disco’ - at the time I was unaware of the 1930s film, History is Made at Night.  The origins of it go back to the mid-1990s, when I first started writing about the history of dance music scenes – for a while I had a column in Mixmag on this called Back in the Day, and I also had stuff published in Eternity and Alien Underground zines. I guess every generation thinks they are the first to discov...

Issue number 13 of Datacide magazine for noise and politics was published earlier this month with a bumper 76 pages including: 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 Nigh...

The 13th issue of Datacide, the international magazine for noise and politics, is out this week. As well as a conference and release party in Berlin this weekend , there will be a launch event on Sunday 20th October 2013 in London, 7 pm to 10 pm. The event will take place at Vinyl (4 Tanners Hill, SE8) the new record shop/cafe/gallery in Deptford. It will feature talks from Datacide contributors, including me looking back on the movement against the 'anti-rave' Criminal Justice Act, and Christoph Fringeli on Datacide magazine. Further details to be announced.  Sunday nights sounds courtesy of DJ Controlled Weirdness, and there will be a bar. Update: now confirmed that event will include talk from David Cecil: - 'Confessions of an Accidental Activist – Sexual politics and homophobia in Uganda'. David was arrested in Uganda and deported earlier this year. He found himself in the media spotlight after he produced a comedy drama in Kampala (Uganda) which was mistakenly port...

The next issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - is out this week, and there's a release party and conference to celebrate it taking place next Saturday 12th October at Naherholung Sternchen in Berlin.  There will be talks on 'sexual politics, rave, revolt, and repression' starting at  5pm including: CHRISTOPH FRINGELI Introduction to the thirteenth print edition of datacide – the magazine for noise & politics JASON SKEET (UK) In search of the constructivist moment: from Russian Futurism to South London Speedcore (via 1975) "It's not freedom that I want but a way out!" So proclaimed the ape in Kafka's short story 'A Report to the Academy'. This talk takes this ape's proclamation as a reference point for the construction of a map that could  be used to locate potential points of escape. The first part of this talk identifies what exactly it is that we may be seeking to escape from. We will then embark on an exploration of ...

The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to disseminate is a bit like going to a party and not taking any drink with you. So I put together a short paper zine collecting together some articles from this site, including material on Malcolm X, radio in the Portuguese revolution 1974, London's Club UK in the 1990s, and a round up of free parties and police from this year. You can download History is Made at Night Sampler 1.0 here (12 pages A5 ) At the Bookfair I helped on the Datacide stall, shifting copies of the essential new issue ( detailed here previously ). Also on the stall we had a few copies of John Eden's Tweetah reggae zine.  You may recall the great reggae/dubstep/grime zine Woofah. A lot of material was written for a final issue that never actually came out for various reasons, so John Eden has put out some of it in the one-off (?) Tweetah. There's a great interview wi...

The twelfth issue of Datacide, 'the magazine for noise and politics',  is out today, with 68 pages of stuff you won't find in any other journal. I have a couple of pieces in it, and the full contents are as follows: - Datacide: Introduction - Darkam: The Art of Visual Noise - Nemeton: Political News - Christoph Fringeli: Neo-Nazi Terror and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany - Cherry Angioma: Communisation Theory and the Question of Fascism - Christoph Fringeli: From Adorno to Mao – The Decomposition of the ’68 Protest Movement into Maoism (extended book review) - Split Horizon: Control and Freedom in Geographic Information Systems - Riccardo Balli: “Bolognoise ain’t a Sauce for Spaghetti but Bologna’s Soundscape” - Polaris International: Documents and Interventions - TechNET insert:    - Noise and Politics – Technet Mix    - No More WordS    - Listener as Operator    - The Intensifier    - No Sta...