Howard Slater

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Howard Slater After attending the Limitless Foundation he graduated from the Invisible College. He has worked in housing and as a volunteer play therapist and 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, A Plume, Arika, Audiolab Arteleku, Autonomedia, Autotoxicity, Break/Flow, Cesura//Acceso, 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 (2026).

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 Unpublished.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]
  • On Anti-Oedipus: Schizopolitics for Scallies, Break/Flow 1, 1996. Updated and archived (2024) at [11]
  • Libidinal Musics, Datacide No.2 1997 [12]
  • New Acephale, Inventory Vol.2 No.3 1997 [13]
  • 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. See also Ars Electronica Symposium at V2, September 1999 [14]
  • "Parallaxed: A Dark 70s Amerika", Datacide 3, Oct 1997.
  • Trocchi The Transversalist, Datacide No.3, Oct 1997 [15]
  • "Graveyard And Ballroom: A Factory Records Scrapbook", Mar 1998. Included in Break/Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [16]
  • "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 [17]
  • With the Sound in Your Ears, Unofficial Tod Dockstader Website 1998, ed. Peter Edwards, [18]
  • Murad Qureshi EP feat. System Ucs, New Acephale, The Narrator, Break/Flow 1998 [19]
  • "Autotraumatisation – On the Movies of John Carpenter", Datacide 5, Jan 1999.
  • "'Long Live Death': On Pasolini’s Salo", Datacide 6, May 1999. Updated 2024.
  • "'Involutionary Music' (on Ultra-Red: An Electroacoustic Pastoral)", Datacide 6, May 1999.
  • Break/Flow, London, Apr 1999. Selected writings from 1997-1999. [20] See Break/Flow Archive for re-edited texts [21]
  • Libreville, Break/Flow 2, 1999 [22]
  • A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass (Proust and Music), Break Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) at [23]
  • I May Perhaps be Permitted to Say... (on Kafka), Break/Flow 2, 1999 [24]
  • Outside the Castle/Inside the Unconscious, Break/Flow 2, 1999 [25]
  • Evacuate the Leftist Bunker in Break/Flow 2, 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [26].Edited Version in Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Vol 3,2003. Pamphlet form at Krisis Munster Press [27]
  • Burnt Money Weekend, Break/Flow 2 1999. Updated and archived (2024) [28]
  • "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.
  • Tempo Character (a poetic excursion), Break/Flow 1999. Unpublished.
  • Draft Essay as Project Note: On Pasolini's Petrolio, Break/Flow, 1999. Unpublished.
  • First Last Month (Novel as Notebook), 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 [29]
  • Divided We Stand: An Outline of Scandinavian Situationism, Infopool, Apr 2001. Pamphlet.
  • "Occasional Documents: Towards Situation", Variant 14, Winter 2001.
  • The Accidented Death of an Anarchist, NetTime August 2001 [30]
  • Flow/Coma (a collection of experimental writings) Break/Flow folder x10, 2002. Forthcoming [31]
  • "Rimbaud: Intermediary Militant: Through Rimbaud's Season in Hell", Infopool, Mar 2002. Repr Mute, 2003 [32] and Krisis Munster Press [33]
  • "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 [34]
  • with Jakob Jakobsen, To Transfigure, To Organize at Copenhagen Free University 2002 [35]
  • with Josephine Berry, Jakob Jakobsen and Henriette Heise, Copenhagen Free University 18th March 2002 [36] Repr. Variant No.15, 2002 [37]
  • The Ass Between Two Chairs, Copenhagen Free University 2002 [38]
  • Proposteral Ouragonisations, Mute 2004 [39]
  • Contributor with Stravaig 7 and Infinite Dialectic, Game & Errancy zine, Difficult Fun Records 2005 [40]
  • Break/Flow - Repli/Depli on Game & Errancy 12" EP, Difficut Fun Records 2005 [41]
  • Lunch Poems 2002-2006 (a selection) Mute 2005 [42]
  • Secessionist Outernational: Poetry & Self-Organisation (2005), Repr. Datacide No.10 2008 [43]
  • Towards Agonism: on Moishe Postone's Time, Labour and Social Domination, Mute 2006 [44]
  • "Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production", Datacide 9, May 2006.
  • Guttural Cultural (on Ghedalia Tazartes), Mute 2007 [45] Repr. Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology, Mute 2009 [46]
  • "Convergent Suggestion – Notes on Organisation and Surrealism", Datacide 10, Oct 2008.
  • Secessionist Outernational: Communique, Datacide No.10, 2008 [47]
  • Secessionist Outernational -v- Ouragonisation, Datacide No.10 2008 [48]
  • 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 [49] Repr.The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part 3, Ed. Warren Neidich, Archive Books 2018 [50]
  • From Hellingly, Papakura Post Office, 2009. Ed./Photographs Max Reeves. See [51]
  • Listener as Operator (1), Mute 2009 [52]
  • Listener as Operator (2), Mute 2010 [53]

Real Phoné, Variant No.39/40, 2010 [54]

  • Fact 24D: The Royal Family & The Poor, Mute 2010 [55]
  • contributor, editor with Nils Norman and Anthony Davies, Going Fragile and SummaSkool Workshops (2010-2011) [56]
  • Letter to Mattin, as front/back cover to Mattin, Unconstituted Praxis, CAC Bretagny/Tumaturgia 2010 [57]
  • "Infra-Noir. 23 Untitled Poems", Datacide 11, Feb 2011. Poems inspired by a non-reading of Infra-Noir (1946) See [58]
  • FTH: The Savage and Beyond (on 2011 Riots), Mute 2011 [59]
  • Anomie/Bonhomie & Other Writings, London: Mute Books, 2012, 152 pp. [60]. Review: Hanson (Nyx). Review:Thoburn, New Formations No.77 (2012)[61] Review: Morgan, Journal of Anarchist Studies 20.1 (2013) [62] Review: Gareth Brown, Phosphor No.4 (2015) [63]
  • Listener as Operator (3) Mute 2012 [66]Talk as contributor to Arika: 'Episode 4:Freedom is a Constant Struggle' Glasgow Tramway, 2013 [67]
  • Interview with Wadada Leo Smith, 2012. Unpublished.
  • Populous Front (on the Movement of the Squares), Mute 2012 [68]
  • Static Frenzy (on Ghérasim Luca), Mute 2012 [69]
  • Contributor, Agit-Disco, Mute/Working Press, 2012 [70]
  • "Lotta Poetica (on the Arab Spring)", Mute/Kuda.org, 6 Nov 2013.
  • Improvisation & Anti-know, Antiknow Research Project No.6, 2013. Ed. Jakob Jakobsen [71]
  • Useless Ease (Poem Sequence based on James Joyce's Ulysses), Datacide 2013 [72]
  • Shared Vertigo (Poem), Datacide No.13, 2013 [73]
  • Earth A'Run Red (on Pierre Guyotat's 'Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers'), Datacide No.13, 2013 [74]
  • 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 [75]
  • Contributor, editor with Tine Tvergaard, Psyche-Pol Zine, Mayday Rooms 2013 [76]
  • Plant Up: From the Plantation to the Cotton Mill, Mute 2013 [77]
  • Contributor, Catalytic Converter - Some Notes on Alexander Trocchi & Project Sigma in The Mental Furniture Industry, ed. Jakob Jakobsen, Flat Time House 2013 [78]
  • Contributor, editor with kuda.org Faculty of De-Programming for Obsolescence! Welcome!, Novi Sad: New Media Center_kuda.org, 2014, 150 pp, PDF. (English)
  • Contributor, editor with School of Walls & Space, Copengahen Poetics of Relation, Workshop Zine 2014, [79]
  • Incorrect Classification Possible (Poems), Datacide No.14, 2014 [80]
  • Cut-Up Marx 11-20 (Poems), Datacide No.14, 2014 [81]
  • Three Jazz Poems: Tnoona, SBN-A-1 66K and Tenderness, Cesura//Acceso No.1, 2014 [82]
  • Recitation as Nommit with Paul Abbott, Daichi Yoskikawa, Seymour Wright, Ute Kanngiesser and Yuki Yamamoto, Cafe Oto, 2014 [83]
  • Contributor, editor with kuda.org, Festival in Opposition (2016) Scratch Orchestra archive presentation [84] Recitation on Conspiracies 1-32 by Chris Cutler, Kuda.org 2016 [85]
  • A Blind Eye Turned - Notes on Music and Libidinal Economy, Cesura//Acceso pamphlet 2016 [86] See sonic version at [87]
  • Sincere Genesis (on Felix Guattari and Groups), Datacide No.15, 2016 [88]
  • Last Survivors or First Mutants? (on 'Surplus Population'), Datacide No.15, 2016 [89]
  • Sound Changes Sense (on 'Music and the Myth of Wholeness'), Mute 2016 [90]
  • Comrade Doctor (on David Cooper and Anti-Psychiatry), Datacide 2017 [91]
  • Practical Overturnings (on Franco Basaglia), Mute 2017 [92]
  • Homicidal Melancholics of the World Unite! (on Frantz Fanon), Mute 2017 [93]
  • Demented Idioms (on 'Schizo Culture'), Datacide No.16, 2017 [94]
  • Anti-Wall: Contribution to a More or Less Caput Comprehension of Surrealism, Kuda.org 2017 [95]
  • Cut-Up Bollas and Cut-Up Bion (Poems), A Plume Annual Volume 1, 2017[96]
  • Unparaphraseable Life (on 'Third Cinema'), Datacide 2018 [97]
  • Three Poems: Spikes in Tongues, On Clozapine and Glossary, Datacide No.18, 2019[98]
  • Contributor, Techno Activate eds. Poppy Tibbets and Louis Hill, Mayday Radio Notes, 2020 [99]
  • Capital Abandon (on Jacques Camatte), Mute 2020. [100] Repr. at Communists in Situ, 2020 [101]
  • Translator, Inversion and Rupture in Continuity by Jacques Camatte, Ill Will 2021 [102]
  • Translator, Instauration of the Risk of Extinction by Jacques Camatte, Il Covile 2021 [103]
  • Translator, The Original Infamy by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [104]
  • Translator, Personal Modification is not Revolution by Lea Melandri, Ill Will 2021 [105]
  • Something Else is Going On (on 'Deaths of Despair'), Penniless Press 2022 [106]
  • Translator, A Little Aphoristic Orgy: Poems by Achille Chavee, Marcel Havrenne, Louis Scutenaire and Introduction, MQB No.18 2022.
  • Recitation, drone accompaniment by Tim Kelly, Construktivist Couplets, July 2022 [107]
  • Desperate Vitality (on Katerina Gogou), Penniless Press 2022 [108]
  • Contributor, Tales from a Disappearing City - Episode 5 (2023), ed. Controlled Wierdness [109]
  • Translator, Errant Reason (on Witold Gombrowicz) by Georges Sebbag, Penniless Press 2023 [110]
  • Translator, Poetry is Invincible by Abdellatif Laâbi, Penniless Press 2023 [111]
  • Plaesthetics (on Anna Mendelssohn), Penniless Press 2023 [112]
  • Laboratory Italy (on 'The Golden Horde: Revolutionary Italy 1960-1977'), Penniless Press 2023 [113]
  • Other Planes of There (on Will Alexander), Penniless Press 2023 [114]
  • Hoo Doo Mojo Obop Rebop (on Calvin Hernton), Penniless Press 2023 [115]
  • Neo-Prole Sequence (Poem-extracts), MQB No. 19, 2023.
  • Being Beseiged (Poem-extracts), MQB No.20, 2023.
  • Electronic Disturbance Zone: Part 1, Datacide 19, 2024 [116]
  • The Seance Continues (Poems),Datacide 19,2024.
  • Contributor, Social Disicpline: Episode 39, 2024. Eds. Mattin & Miguel Prado[117] Includes poem recitations feat. Petrolio Poems 1-9, 2022.
  • Reader as Accomplice (Arcades Project Cut-Up), 2024. Forthcoming L19C.
  • Cahiers de Doleances - Is There An Affective Class?, Ill Will 2024 [118]
  • Night Shift (on 'Living Currency'),2024. Forthcoming L19C.
  • The Unvanquished Messianic (on Victor Serge), Penniless Press, 2024 [119]
  • Benjamin Brooder, 2024. Forthcoming L19C.
  • Noughtocracy (on Andrey Platonov's Chevengur), Penniless Press 2024 [120]
  • Touch The Earth (Poem), 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 [121]
  • An End Before A Beginning (on 'Left Wing Melancholy'), Penniless Press 2025 [122]
  • A Feeling for History, 2025. Forthcoming L19C.
  • Translator, Charles Fourier, or the Great Swerve by René Schérer, Ill Will 2025 [123]
  • Class Incognito (on James Hanley and 30s Working Class Writers), Penniless Press 2025 [124]
  • Translator, Je M'oralise by Ghérasim Luca, Penniless Press 2025 [125]
  • Instantaneous Musical Drama (On 'Synths, Sax and Situationists'), Penniless Press 2025 [126]
  • Autodidact Artefact, Forthcoming North West History Journal 2025.
  • Restless Witness (On Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary), Penniless Press 2025. [127]
  • Contributor, Translator, Jacques Camatte Dossier, forthcoming Endnotes 2025.
  • Translator, with David Grundy, L'Oeil et La Nuit by Abdellatif Laâbi, forthcoming Materials Press 2026 [128]
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