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, Technet 1993-1996. Flyer-zine. Archived at Datacide. See [1]
• editor, Break/Flow, 1996-2000. Magazine.
• contributor, "Datacide" [2], 19 numbers, 1997-2025. Magazine.
• Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma, Variant No.7,1990. Repr in Anti-University Tabloid,2013. See [3]
• Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma, Break/Flow 1, 1996. Update and archived (2024) at [4]
• 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. [5]
• Working Class Novelists 1930-1950, London: Working Press, n.d. Pamphlet. [6]
• "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. Updated 2024: [7]
• "'Involutionary Music': Ultra-red: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (Mille Plateaux)", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• Break/Flow, London, Apr 1999. Selected writings from 1997-1999. [8] See Break/Flow Archive for re-edited texts [9]
• A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass (Proust and Music), Break Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) at [10]
• "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, Infopool, 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.
• All Was Music (on Walter Marchetti), Datacide 2009 [11]
• Listener as Operator (1), Mute 2009 [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/mute-music/listener-operator
• Listener as Operator (2), Mute 2010 [12]
• Fact 24D: The Royal Family & The Poor, Mute 2010 [13]
• "Infra-Noir. 23 Untitled Poems", Datacide 11, Feb 2011. Poems inspired by a non-reading of Infra-Noir (1946) See [14]
• FTH: The Savage and Beyond, Mute 2011 [15]
• Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings, London: Mute, 2012, 152 pp. [16]. Review: Hanson (Nyx). Review Thoburn [17]
  • Anomija/Bonomija i drugi tekstovi, trans. Dušan Đorđević Mileusnić, Đorđe Čolić, et al., Novi Sad: Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, 2013, 164 pp. [18] [19] (Serbo-Croatian)
• Listener as Operator (3) Mute 2012 [20]
• Populous Front (on the Movement of the Squares), Mute 2012 [21]
• "Lotta Poetica", Mute, 6 Nov 2013.
• Useless Ease (Poem Sequence based on James Joyce's Ulysses), Datacide 2013 [22]
• contributor, 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)
• Plant Up: From the Plantation to the Cotton Mill, Mute 2013 [23]
• A Blind Eye Turned - Notes on Music and Libidinal Economy, Cesura//Acceso 2016 [24]
• Sincere Genesis (on Felix Guattari and Groups), Datacide 2016 [25]
• Comrade Doctor (on David Cooper and Anti-Psychiatry), Datacide 2017 [26]
• Practical Overturnings (on Franco Basaglia), Mute 2017 [27]
• Homicidal Melancholics of the World Unite! (on Frantz Fanon), Mute 2017 [28]
• Anti-Wall: Contribution to a more or less Caput Comprhension of Surrealism, Kuda.org 2017 [29]
• Unparaphraseable Life (on Third Cinema), Datacide 2018 [30]
• Capital Abandon (on Jacques Camatte), Mute 2020. [31] Repr at Communists in Situ, 2020 [32]
• Translator, Inversion and Rupture in Continuity by Jacques Camatte, Ill Will 2021 [33]
• Translator, Instauration of the Risk of Extinction by Jacques Camatte, Il Covile 2021 [34]
• Translator, The Original Infamy by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [35]
• Translator, Personal Modification is not Revolution by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [36]
• Desperate Vitality (on Katerina Gogou), Penniless Press 2022 [37]
• Translator, Errant Reason (on Witold Gombrowicz) by Georges Sebbag, Penniless Press 2023 [38]
• Translator, Poetry is Invincible by Abdellatif Laabi, Penniless Press 2023 [39]
• Plaesthetics (on Anna Mendelssohn), Penniless Press 2023 [40]
• Laboratory Italy, Penniless Press 2023 [41]
• Other Planes of There (on Will Alexander), Penniless Press 2023 [42]
• Electronic Disturbance Zone Part 1, Datacide 19, 2024 [43]
• Cahiers de Doleances - Is There An Affective Class?, Ill Will 2024 [44]
• The Unvanquished Messianic (on Victor Serge), Penniless Press, 2024 [45]
• Noughtocracy (on Andrey Platonov's Chevengur), Penniless Press 2024 [46]
• Hush! Caution! Echoland!, text recited in collaboration with Kuda.org at 'Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 2025. See [47]
• An End Before A Beginning (on Left Wing Melancholy), Penniless Press 2025 [48]
• Translator, Charles Fourier, or the Great Swerve by Rene Scherer, Ill Will 2025 [49]

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