Howard Slater

Howard Slater has worked in housing and as a volunteer play therapist. He now works in mental health as a support worker. Whilst he has been writing since the early 1980s he has mainly been published in small press magazines, independent publishing initiatives and web sites. His texts and poetry have been supported and published by: 10th Floor, Alien Underground, Audiolab Arteleku, Autonomedia, Autotoxicity, Break/Flow, Copenhagen Free University, Datacide, Difficult Fun, Fatuous Times, Five Leaves Left, Here & Now, Infopool, Infotainment, Mute, Night Class, Noise Gate, Obsessive Eye, Palantir, Papakura Post Office, Penniless Press, Rebel Ink, Resonance Magazine (LMC), School of Walls & Space, Smile, TechNET, Variant, Working Press. He was the editor of Break/Flow. He was one of the five founder members of the London-based MayDay Rooms initiative.

Publications

• editor, Break/Flow, 1996ff. Magazine.
• contributer, "Datacide" [1], 19 numbers, 1997-2025. Magazine.
• Howard Slater/Eddie Miller/Flint Michigan, "Post-Media Operators", Break/Flow, 28 Feb 1997; repr. in Datacide 2, Jun 1997; repr. in ReadMe! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime, New York: Autonomedia, 1999, pp 398-399.
• "Parallaxed", Datacide 3, Oct 1997.
• "The New Wave Films and the Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner", London: Working Press, n.d., TXT. [2]
• Working Class Novelists 1930-1950, London: Working Press, n.d. Pamphlet. [3]
• "Graveyard And Ballroom: A Factory Records Scrapbook", Mar 1998.
• "The Western", Datacide 4, Mar-Jul 1998.
• "Minimal Apertures (Insert to The Western)", Datacide 4, Mar-Jul 1998.
• "Post-Media Operators: An Imaginary Address", Break/Flow, 22 Sep 1998.
• "Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter", Datacide 5, Jan 1999.
• "'Long Live Death': On Pasolini’s Salo", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• "'Involutionary Music': Ultra-red: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (Mille Plateaux)", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• "Break/Flow", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• "Loose Watch: a Lost and Found Times Critical Anthology (Invisible Books)", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• Break/Flow, London, Apr 1999. Selected writings from 1997-1999. [4]
• "Past Imperfect in the Electronic Archive", Nettime, 10 Aug 1999.
• "Post-Media Operators: 'Sovereign and Vague'", Infotainment 5, 1999; repr. in Datacide 7, Aug 2000; repr. in An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance, ed. Joanne Richardson, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, pp 194-202; repr. in Mute, 8 Feb 2012; repr. in Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology, eds. Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz, London: Mute, and Lüneburg: Post-Media Lab, 2013, pp 28-43.
• The Art of Governance: On The Artist Placement Group 1966-1989 , Break/Flow, Feb/Mar 2000; repr. in Variant 2:11, Summer 2000.
• The Spoiled Ideals of Lost Situations: Some Notes on Political Conceptual Art, Break/Flow, Jun 2000.
• Divided We Stand: An Outline of Scandinavian Situationism, Infopool, Apr 2001. Pamphlet.
• "Occasional Documents: Towards Situation", Variant 14, Winter 2001.
• "Rimbaud: Intermediary Militant: Through Rimbaud's Season in Hell", Break/Flow, Mar 2002.
• "Godard – THE CHILD OF MARX & COCA COLA: On Godard’s Masculin/Feminin", Datacide 8, Oct 2002.
• "Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production", Datacide 9, May 2006.
• "Convergent Suggestion – Notes on Organisation and Surrealism", Datacide 10, Oct 2008.
• "Infra-Noir. 23 Untitled Poems", Datacide 11, Feb 2011.

• Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings, London: Mute, 2012, 152 pp. [5]. Review: Hanson (Nyx).
  • Anomija/Bonomija i drugi tekstovi, trans. Dušan Đorđević Mileusnić, Đorđe Čolić, et al., Novi Sad: Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, 2013, 164 pp. [6] [7] (Serbo-Croatian)

• "Lotta Poetica", Mute, 6 Nov 2013.

• editor, with kuda.org, Faculty of De-Programming for Obsolescence! Welcome!, Novi Sad: New Media Center_kuda.org, 2014, 150 pp, PDF. (English)
  • Fakultet za deprogramiranje zastarelosti! Dobrodošli!, Novi Sad: Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, 2014, 150 pp, PDF. (Serbo-Croatian)
• Cahiers de Doleances - Is There An Affective Class?, Ill Will 2024 [8]
• Noughtocracy - On Platanov's Chevengur, Penniless Press 2024 [9]
• An End Before A Beginning - On Left Wing Melancholy, Penniless Press 2025 [10]

• ARG