Howard Slater

Howard Slater has worked in housing and as a volunteer play therapist. He graduated at the Limitless Foundation before attending the Invisible College. 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: Alien Underground, Arika, Audiolab Arteleku, Autonomedia, Autotoxicity, Break/Flow, Copenhagen Free University, Datacide, Difficult Fun, Fatuous Times, Five Leaves Left, Global Tapestry, Ill Will, Infopool, Infotainment, Inventory, Kuda.org, Manoa Free University, Mute magazine, Nettime, Night Class, Noisegate, Obsessive Eye, Palantir, Papakura Post Office, Penniless Press, Rebel Ink, Resonance Magazine (LMC), School of Walls & Space, Smile, TechNET, TnT, Transgressions, 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. He is currently working on a collection entitled Leaving the 19th Century (2025).

Publications

• "The New Wave Films and the Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner", London: Working Press, n.d., TXT. [1]
• Tribunes & Plebs: Towards the 'other' Worker's Movement, Working Press (1991). Unpublished.
• Working Class Novelists 1930-1950, London: Working Press, n.d. Pamphlet. [2]
• editor, with Jason Skeete, TechNet 1993-1996. Flyer-zine. Archived at Datacide (2013) [3]
• editor, Break/Flow, 1996-2000. Magazine.
• contributor, "Datacide" [4], 19 numbers, 1997-2025. Magazine. Ed. Christoph Fringeli. See Everything is even more Ridiculous, Datacide 1-10, 2015 [5]
• Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma, Variant No.7, 1990. Repr. Smile No.9. Repr. in Anti-University Tabloid,2013 [6]
• Drifting with James Hanley, Penniless Press, 1993 [7]
• Neutral and Commercial...Just like everybody, Transgressions No.2/3 1996 [8]
• Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma, Introduction to Sigma Portfolio reproductions (Trocchi's Potlatch and General Informations) in Break/Flow 1, 1996. Updated and archived (2024) at [9]
• You Don't Have to Understand - Interview with Ronald Sukenick and introduction,Break/Flow 1, 1996 [10]
• Libidinal Musics, Datacide No.2 1997 [11]
• New Acephale, Inventory Vol.2 No.3 1997 [12]
• Howard Slater/Eddie Miller/Flint Michigan, "Post-Media Operators", Break/Flow flyer, 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.
• "Graveyard And Ballroom: A Factory Records Scrapbook", Mar 1998. Included in Break/Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [13]
• "The Western", Datacide 4, Mar-Jul 1998.
• "Minimal Apertures (Insert to The Western)", Datacide 4, Mar-Jul 1998.
• "Post-Media Operators: An Imaginary Address", Infopool, 22 Sep 1998.
• Heterozygotic (on Luc Ferrari), Noisegate No.8 (1998). Repr. Manoa Free University [14]
• With the Sound in Your Ears on the Unofficial Tod Dockstader website, ed. Peter Edwards, [15]
• "Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter", Datacide 5, Jan 1999.
• "'Long Live Death': On Pasolini’s Salo", Datacide 6, May 1999. Updated 2024: [16]
• "'Involutionary Music': Ultra-red: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (Mille Plateaux)", Datacide 6, May 1999.
• Break/Flow, London, Apr 1999. Selected writings from 1997-1999. [17] See Break/Flow Archive for re-edited texts [18]
• A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass (Proust and Music), Break Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) at [19]
• Evacuate the Leftist Bunker in Break/Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [20].Edited Version in Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Vol 3,2003. Pamphlet form at Krisis Munster Press [21]
• Burnt Money Weekend, Break/Flow 2 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [22]
• "Past Imperfect in the Electronic Archive", Resonance Vol. 8 No.1, 1998, Repr, 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.
• Draft Essay as Project Note: On Pasolini's Petrolio, Break/Flow, 1999. Unpublished.
• 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. Repr. at Histories and Theories of Intermedia, 2007 [23]
• Divided We Stand: An Outline of Scandinavian Situationism, Infopool, Apr 2001. Pamphlet.
• "Occasional Documents: Towards Situation", Variant 14, Winter 2001.
• Flow/Coma (a collection of experimental writings) Break/Flow folder x10, 2002. Forthcoming [24]
• "Rimbaud: Intermediary Militant: Through Rimbaud's Season in Hell", Infopool, Mar 2002. Repr Mute, 2003 [25] and Krisis Munster Press [26]
• "Godard – THE CHILD OF MARX & COCA COLA: On Godard’s Masculin/Feminin", Datacide 8, Oct 2002.
• All Was Music (on Walter Marchetti), Datacide No.8 2002 [27]
• with Jakob Jakobsen, To Transfigure, To Organize at Copenhagen Free University 2002 [28]
• with Josephine Berry, Jakob Jakobsen and Henriette Heise, Copenhagen Free University 18th March 2002 [29] Repr. Variant No.15, 2002 [30]
• The Ass Between Two Chairs, Copenhagen Free University 2002 [31]
• Lunch Poems 2002-2006(a selection) Mute 2005 [32]
• Secessionist Outernational: Poetry & Self-Organisation (2005), Repr. Datacide No.10 2008 [33]
• Towards Agonism: on Moishe Postone's Time, Labour and Social Domination, Mute 2006 [34]
• "Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production", Datacide 9, May 2006.
• Guttural Cultural (on Ghedalia Tazartes), Mute 2007 [35]
• "Convergent Suggestion – Notes on Organisation and Surrealism", Datacide 10, Oct 2008.
• Secessionist Outernational: Communique, Datacide No.10, 2008 [36]
• Secessionist Outernational -v- Ouragonisation, Datacide No.10 2008 [37]
• Contributor with 'Prisoners of the Earth Come out! - Notes Towards a War at the Membrane' in Noise and Capitalism,eds. Mattin & Anthony Iles, Kritika - Arteleku/Audio Lab 2009 [38] Repr.The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part 3, Ed. Warren Neidich, Archive Books 2018 [39]
• From Hellingly, Papakura Post Office, 2009. Ed./Photographs Max Reeves. See [40]
• Listener as Operator (1), Mute 2009 [41]
• Listener as Operator (2), Mute 2010 [42]

Real Phoné, Variant No.39/40, 2010 [43]

• Fact 24D: The Royal Family & The Poor, Mute 2010 [44]
• contributor, editor with Nils Norman and Anthony Davies, Going Fragile and SummaSkool Workshops (2010-2011) [45]
• Letter to Mattin, as front/back cover to Mattin, Unconstituted Praxis, CAC Bretagny/Tumaturgia 2010 [46]
• "Infra-Noir. 23 Untitled Poems", Datacide 11, Feb 2011. Poems inspired by a non-reading of Infra-Noir (1946) See [47]
• FTH: The Savage and Beyond, Mute 2011 [48]
• Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings, London: Mute, 2012, 152 pp. [49]. Review: Hanson (Nyx). Review:Thoburn, New Formations No.77 (2012)[50] Review: Morgan, Journal of Anarchist Studies 20.1 (2013) [51] Review: Gareth Brown, Phosphor No.4 (2015) [52]
  • Anomija/Bonomija i drugi tekstovi, trans. Dušan Đorđević Mileusnić, Đorđe Čolić, et al., Novi Sad: Centar za nove medije_kuda.org, 2013, 164 pp. [53] [54] (Serbo-Croatian)
• Listener as Operator (3) Mute 2012 [55]Talk as contributor to Arika: 'Episode 4:Freedom is a Constant Struggle' Glasgow Tramway, 2013 [56]
• Populous Front (on the Movement of the Squares), Mute 2012 [57]
• Static Frenzy (on Gherasim Luca), Mute 2012 [58]
• Contributor, Agit-Disco, Working Press, 2012 [59]
• "Lotta Poetica", Mute/Kuda.org, 6 Nov 2013.
• Improvisation & Anti-know, Antiknow Research Project No.6, 2013. Ed. Jakob Jakobsen [60]
• Useless Ease (Poem Sequence based on James Joyce's Ulysses), Datacide 2013 [61]
• Earth A'Run Red (on Pierre Guyotat), Datacide No.13, 2013 [62]
• with Nils Norman, Anthony Davies, Suspended Vocation by the Movement of the 20th October 2013 in The Second World Congress of Free Artists, Camel Collective, Kunsthal Aarhus 2013 [63]
• Contributor, editor with Tine Tvergaard, Psyche-Pol Zine, Mayday Rooms 2013 [64]
• Plant Up: From the Plantation to the Cotton Mill, Mute 2013 [65]
• Contributor, Catalytic Converter - Some Notes on Alexander Trocchi & Project Sigma in The Mental Furniture Industry, ed. Jakob Jakobsen, Flat Time House 2013 [66]
• 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)
• Contributor, editor with School of Walls & Space, Copengahen Poetics of Relation, Workshop Zine 2014, [67]
• Contributor, editor with kuda.org, Festival in Opposition (2016) Scratch Orchestra archive presentation [68] Recitation on Conspiracies 1-32 by Chris Cutler, Kuda.org 2016 [69]
• A Blind Eye Turned - Notes on Music and Libidinal Economy, Cesura//Acceso 2016 [70]
• Sincere Genesis (on Felix Guattari and Groups), Datacide 2016 [71]
• Last Survivors or First Mutants?, Datacide No.15, 2016 [72]
• Sound Changes Sense, Mute 2016 [73]
• Comrade Doctor (on David Cooper and Anti-Psychiatry), Datacide 2017 [74]
• Practical Overturnings (on Franco Basaglia), Mute 2017 [75]
• Homicidal Melancholics of the World Unite! (on Frantz Fanon), Mute 2017 [76]
• Anti-Wall: Contribution to a More or Less Caput Comprehension of Surrealism, Kuda.org 2017 [77]
• Unparaphraseable Life (on Third Cinema), Datacide 2018 [78]
• Capital Abandon (on Jacques Camatte), Mute 2020. [79] Repr. at Communists in Situ, 2020 [80]
• Translator, Inversion and Rupture in Continuity by Jacques Camatte, Ill Will 2021 [81]
• Translator, Instauration of the Risk of Extinction by Jacques Camatte, Il Covile 2021 [82]
• Translator, The Original Infamy by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [83]
• Translator, Personal Modification is not Revolution by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [84]
• Translator, A Little Aphoristic Orgy: Poems by Achille Chavee, Marcel Havrenne, Louis Scutenaire and Introduction, MQB No.18 2022.
• Desperate Vitality (on Katerina Gogou), Penniless Press 2022 [85]
• Contributor, Tales from a Disappearing City - Episode 5 (2023), ed. Controlled Wierdness [86]
• Translator, Errant Reason (on Witold Gombrowicz) by Georges Sebbag, Penniless Press 2023 [87]
• Translator, Poetry is Invincible by Abdellatif Laâbi, Penniless Press 2023 [88]
• Plaesthetics (on Anna Mendelssohn), Penniless Press 2023 [89]
• Laboratory Italy, Penniless Press 2023 [90]
• Other Planes of There (on Will Alexander), Penniless Press 2023 [91]
• Hoo Doo Mojo Obop Rebop (on Calvin Hernton), Penniless Press 2023 [92]
• Neo-Prole Sequence (extracts), MQB No. 19, 2023.
• Being Beseiged (extracts), MQB No.20, 2023.
• Electronic Disturbance Zone: Part 1, Datacide 19, 2024 [93]
• The Seance Continues (Poems),Datacide 19,2024.
• Contributor, Social Disicpline: Episode 39, 2024. Eds. Mattin & Miguel Prado[94]
• Reader as Accomplice (Arcades Project Cut-Up), 2024. Forthcoming L19C.
• Cahiers de Doleances - Is There An Affective Class?, Ill Will 2024 [95]
• Night Shift (on Living Currency),2024. Forthcoming L19C.
• The Unvanquished Messianic (on Victor Serge), Penniless Press, 2024 [96]
• Benjamin Brooder, 2024. Forthcoming L19C.
• Noughtocracy (on Andrey Platonov's Chevengur), Penniless Press 2024 [97]
• Touch The Earth, MQB No.21, 2024.
• WLM: Class Struggle Reprise, 2025. Forthcoming L19C.
• Letter from Even Further Afar (to Ivan Chtcheglov), 2025. Forthcoming L19C.
• Hush! Caution! Echoland!, text recited in visual and sonic collaboration with Kuda.org at 'Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 2025 [98]
• An End Before A Beginning (on Left Wing Melancholy), Penniless Press 2025 [99]
• A Feeling for History, 2025. Forthcoming L19C.
• Translator, Charles Fourier, or the Great Swerve by René Schérer, Ill Will 2025 [100]
• Class Incognito (on James Hanley and 30s Working Class Writers), Penniless Press 2025 [101]
• Translator, with David Grundy, L'Oeil et La Nuit by Abdellatif Laâbi, forthcoming Materials Press (2026)[102]

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