We’re doing a table at the Warsaw Independent Bookfair Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2017.
CF will do a talk based on Hedonism & Revolution – The Barricade and the Dancefloor Sunday at 14.45

Facebook Event for the Bookfair
Timetable of Talks
Infos in Polish, English, Russian:

For English scroll down // Русская версия внизу

Druga edycja Warszawskiego Niezależnego Kiermaszu Książek odbędzie się w Klubie Pogłos przy Burakowskiej 12 w dniach 9-10 września 2017. Jeśli piszesz, drukujesz, organizujesz, tłumaczysz, prowadzisz bibliotekę albo coś badasz, tworzysz lub po prostu, tak jak my, lubisz książki, wpadnij wesprzeć nas w działaniach na rzecz niezależnych wydawnictw i książkowej samoorganizacji. Zapraszamy na dyskusje, wykłady, warsztaty i koncerty w trakcie WNKK!

W ubiegłym roku w Kiermaszu udział brały różnorodne grupy z kraju i zagranicy, międzynarodowe kolektywy, migranci i migrantki mieszkający w Warszawie oraz dziesiątki miłośniczek i miłośników książek w każdym wieku. Nie możemy się doczekać, aby tegorocznej jesieni znów się z wami spotkać!

Oprócz wydarzeń związanych z tematyką wydawniczą, kiermasz to także przestrzeń warsztatów oraz spotkań poruszających szerokie spektrum tematów – chcemy oddać głos inicjatywom oddolnym i osobom wykluczanym z dominującego dyskursu //z powodu rasy, pochodzenia, płci, orientacji seksualnej, wieku, ekonomicznych barier lub sprawności//. Pomyślmy wspólnie jak dzielić się naszymi doświadczeniami, aby uczyć się od siebie nawzajem, z szacunkiem dyskutować nad alternatywami oraz spojrzeć krytycznie na współczesną rzeczywistość.

Wciąż niezdecydowani_e? Spójrzcie na tegoroczny program (http://warsawbookfair.esy.es/) i krótką video zajawkę z podsumowaniem WNKK 2016 (vimeo.com/183179046).

Jeśli macie jakieś pytania, chcecie włączyć się w przygotowanie wydarzenia lub pomóc w promocji i organizacji przed i w trakcie samego kiermaszu (np. przy plakatowaniu, przygotowywaniu przestrzeni, opiece nad dziećmi, etc.) piszcie na adres warsawbookfair[at]riseup.net (w temacie wpiszcie: “Pomoc”)

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The second edition of the Warsaw Independent Bookfair will take place on September 9 and 10, 2017.

The fair will be hosted by the Pogłos Club (Burakowska, 12) and accompanied by events including discussions, lectures, workshops and concerts. We warmly invite writers and translators, artists and researchers, publishers and librarians (and also those who do not fit into these categories) to join us in promoting and putting into practice the idea of independent publishing and self-organisation. While the focus on publishing remains, this year will also include a series of parallel events on a broader range of topics with the aim of giving voice to the grassroots initiatives and groups so often excluded from the dominant discourse //whether for reasons of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, income or ability.// Let’s think how to share our experiences openly and with respect, make criticisms sharper and clearer and learn to discuss alternatives together.

Last year, the Bookfair gathered dozens of participants from Poland and abroad, migrants living in Warsaw and international collectives. We — both adults and children — had lots of fun and cannot wait to see you this autumn!

Still not sure? Have a look at a short video of the event (vimeo.com/183179046), learn about the venue and see last year’s program (www.warsawbookfair.esy.es).

If you’re interested in getting involved in helping out with the event or participating in the organising process leading up to the bookfair, please get in touch via email at warsawbookfair[at]riseup.net and add ‘help’ in the subject line for details.

RUS
Приглашение на Варшавскую независимую книжную ярмарку – 2017
Вторая по счету Варшавская независимая книжная ярмарка состоится 9 и 10 сентября 2017 г. в Pogłos Club (ул. Burakowska, 12). В рамках выставки будут проходить лекции и обсуждения, мастер-классы и концерты.

Мы стремимся поддерживать независимые издательства и применять идеи самоорганизации на практике. К участию приглашаются не только писатели, переводчики, художники, исследователи, издатели и библиотекари, но и те, кому не подходят эти описания. Кроме того, в этом году мы готовим параллельную программу с более широкой тематикой, предоставляя тем самым пространство для низовых инициатив и групп, исключенных из доминирующего дискурса — будь то из-за цвета кожи или происхождения, гендерной принадлежности или сексуальных предпочтений, дохода или состояния здоровья. Мы предлагаем подумать над тем, как сделать обмен опытом открытым и уважительным, критику — более острой и ясной, организовать конструктивное обсуждение альтернатив и планов.
В прошлом году ярмарка собрала несколько десятков участников из Польши и других стран, международные коллективы и живущих в Варшаве мигрантов. Было весело (как взрослым, так и детям), и мы с нетерпением ждем следующей встречи этой осенью.

Если вы все еще сомневаетесь, посмотрите небольшой репортаж о первой ярмарке (vimeo.com/183179046), ознакомьтесь с прошлогодней программой и узнайте больше о социальном центре ADA: warsawbookfair.esy.es.

Если вы хотите помочь в организации и/или во время проведения ярмарки, пишите на warsawbookfair[at]riseup.net (с пометкой «Помощь»).

Following the party at Køpi in Berlin (August 26) we celebrate 25 Years of Praxis in Budapest and Vienna

August 31 – Radio Show Radio Tilos from midnight to 5.00
[archive linkes will be posted here shortly]

September 1 – Budapest @ Müszi

Az idén 25 éves Praxis kiadó egy kellemes szülinapi programmal ajándékozza meg a hazai közönséget.>>>

25 years of Praxis

Praxis was founded as a label for experimental hard dance music in 1992 in London. It’s one of the very few labels not only still in existence but also still engaged in exploratory developments. Now based in Berlin, the label is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of events.

Talk (20:00~)

Christoph Fringeli: Hedonism and Revolution – The Barricade and the Dancefloor

Talk and discussion about the interrelation of countercultures and radical politics, in history, the present and perspectives for the future.
(updated version of the article of the same name in Datacide 11)

Praxis floor:

Prole Sector (Praxis, Bass, UK/RSA – LIVE)

Base Force One (Praxis, Experimental Hardcore, Germany – LIVE)

Psychic Defence (Praxis, Broken Beats, Germany/USA – LIVE)

DJka Luchs (Praxis, Breakcore, USA – DJ)

Zombieflesheater (Kritik am Leben, Breakcore, Ger – DJ)

Unprofessional (Hardcore, Italy, LIVE)

+ More

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Davo floor:

Obstruct (LIVE)

Log:n (DJ)

Thalium (LIVE)

Telesport (LIVE)

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September 2nd – Vienna @ EKH

▌PANZERSCHOKOLADE #16 ◥ ◤ 25 YRS PRAXIS RECORDS ▌

start 20:00 – Lecture by Christoph Fringeli

Hedonism and Revolution: The Barricade and the Dancefloor

Talk and discussion about the interrelation of countercultures and radical politics, in history, the present and perspectives for the future.

„We have a world of pleasures to win and nothing to lose but boredom.“

25 years of Praxis

Praxis was founded as a label for experimental hard dance music in 1992 in London. It’s one of the very few labels not only still in existence but also still engaged in exploratory developments. Now based in Berlin, the label is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of events.

► prole sector

► christoph fringeli

► zombieflesheater

► lynx

► psychic defence

► unprofessional

► assimilatah

► jung an tagen

► inou ki endo

► dj balli

► beverly kills

► makava experience

► dci.banks

► bam!!!

► miami vince

► faz’og

► fall into dry lungs

► inverto boy & abraham wurstkessel

► johnny weissbrot

► therese haller

► ulrich rois

► more t.b.a.

VJS ► Mana

Praxis Records Datacide Panzerschokolade

WE EXPECT OUR GUESTS TO BE RESPECTFUL AND MINDFUL

BIST DU GEMEIN GEHST DU HEIM!

We do not tolerate sexist, racist, homophobic, antisemitic, antiziganist, nationalist or any other kind of asshole behaviour.

Please watch out for each other and dont hesitate to contact us at the entrance/bar/soundsystem.

If you dont respect (the boundaries of) others, you will be kicked out without discussion.

BE NICE OR LEAVE!

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ENTRY = FREE DONATION (which should also express your respect for the efforts made and your dedication to be a part of the party)

Saturday August 26

25 Years Praxis Party in Berlin

Køpi – Köpenicker Strasse 137 – Berlin

We celebrate 25 years of Praxis Records, 20 years of Datacide Magazine and also 20 years of Sub/Version Records.

Datacide/ Praxis Soli with:

PSYCHIC DEFENCE

PROLE SECTOR

ZOMBIEFLESHEATER

DJKA LUCHS (LYNX!)

AMBOSS

PURE MANIA

EGON FRINZ

BASE FORCE ONE
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MORE INFO SOON

EXPERIMENTAL HARDCORE / RADICAL BREAKS / MILITANT NOISE & HIGH SPEED

Soundsystem By: Yaya Systems

Hsiao-Hung Pai: Angry White People
Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right
With a Foreword by Benjamin Zephaniah
Zed Books, London 2016
ISBN 978-1-783606-92-4

Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Zed Press, 2016) is not quite the overview of contemporary UK fascism that its subtitle suggests. The familiar far-right brands of the British National Party, National Front, and their various offshoots barely figure. Instead, the main focus is on the phenomenon of the English Defence League, which seemed to have exploded out of nowhere in 2009 and over the next few years mobilised anti-Muslim street protests across England. The group still exists today, though it has lost much of its early momentum and some of its founding activists along the way.
Pai’s avowed aim is to try to understand ‘what personal and social circumstances are leading these men and women’ to join a movement ‘based on prejudices and myths’, bringing to the subject the ‘outsider’ perspective of a 1990s migrant from Taiwan who is not distracted by social niceties from asking direct and awkward questions. This includes displays of chutzpah or just plain cheek such as knocking on the door of a house flying an England flag and asking its inhabitant to explain himself and walking into the pub reputed to be the EDL’s favoured drinking hole and requesting to speak to its leader, ‘Tommy Robinson’ – real name Stephen Lennon. As a result she does secure what seem to be some fairly unguarded and revealing conversations with a number of EDL supporters, including a couple with Robinson himself.
The EDL’s carefully curated image of being a non-racist organisation simply opposed to ‘Islamic extremism’ is belied by racist remarks about Muslims in general, informed by an incoherent and paranoid world view that fears some kind of impending Muslim domination of the UK. Robinson tells her: ‘Wherever Islam is, there is a military operation to implement sharia law. This country will be exactly the same. Five per cent of the population is Muslim. When it becomes 20 per cent, that’s when there will be a war’.
Robinson struggles to explain why he feels English and not British, or to reconcile his politics with his part-Irish background. In addition to complaining about Muslims, he complains about immigration more generally and even about Welsh workers getting building work in his home town, while at the same time acknowledging that ‘Everyone in this town is an immigrant’, his family included. Meanwhile, a rank-and-file activist complains about ‘pakis’ while obsessing about his desires for ‘oriental’ women. So far, so stupid, but if the far right could be defeated by exposing their irrationality and logical inconsistency, they would have been vanquished long ago. [Read more →]

“The problem is not really defining a political position […] but
to imagine and to bring about new schemas of politicization.”

– Michel Foucault

Back in the late 1980s, a series of pocket books appeared introducing English speakers to several writers who would become lumped together as post-modernist or post structuralist philosophers. At the time, though, the names of Baudrillard, Lyotard, Virilio and Deleuze & Guattari were a lot less well known and these pocket books (dubbed the Foreign Agent Series) had the aura of underground publications. More aptly, perhaps, they seemed extra-academic; they didn’t seem to be coming from an institution and least of all from a British institution. The origins of these books, however, lay in a series of Journals and Conferences organized and edited under the name of Semiotext(e) and which came out of a specific department of Columbia University (an institutional vacuole?) One such Conference and accompanying Journal was the Schizo Culture gathering of November 1975, which brought (mainly untranslated) French theorists into collision and collaboration with elements of the SoHo Art Scene and with anti-psychiatry and prison activists like Howie Harp (Insane Liberation Front) and Judy Clark (Midnight Special). Ever mobile and shape- shifting and apposite to Semiotext(e)’s birth in a critique of linguistics¹
we would find that William Burroughs (he of the ‘word virus’) was present, as was his fleetingly one-time Project Sigma collaborant, Ronald Laing. [Read more →]