FE Author: T. Fulano (David Watson)

1. Nuclearism is inherently totalitarian. The apparent controversy over nuclear power is not really a matter for debate: it mirrors the underlying question of social power. Its history makes this clear. // Share this on…

“The political status quo in Mexico died on January 1. Every Mexican institution is now in a state of crisis.” —El Financiero (Mexican business newspaper) // Share this on…

The night the Korean airliner crashed into the newspapers, I dreamed of a tornado. A tornado is a kind of spiral, which is the labyrinth and which is Death. // Share this on…

There she is, looking vaguely pornographic on the glossy covers of the weekly magazines, the planet Saturn. What have we discovered? I don’t know, I haven’t read them, feeling squashed as I do to the Earth by the giddying inertia …

Saturn and Scientism Read More »

The letters which appear in this issue of the Fifth Estate do not represent the entire correspondence which has grown out of the discussion on technology. Some of our exchanges with readers of the paper became too broad, too lengthy, …

Uncovering a Corpse Read More »

“…If one has courage and daring without benevolence, one is like a madman wielding a sharp sword; if one is smart and swift without wisdom, one is as though riding on a fast mount but not knowing which way to …

The Unabomber and the Future of Industrial Society Read More »

All the city mourns, and the crumpled masses languish at the gates, and the cry of all the freeways has gone up. The politicians have sent their runners to the waters, but they have come with all their vessels empty. …

The Annunciation of the Papal Visit to Detroit Read More »

July ’87 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Detroit riots: the largest American rebellion of the century. Reactions to an early morning police raid on a ghetto after-hours drinking spot began with stones and bricks aimed at cop cars and …

July 1967 Read More »

‘I hear America singing’ “—so what.” — D. Campion // Share this on…

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot’ stamping on the human face—forever.” —O’Brien, in Orwell’s 1984 How do we begin to discuss something as immense as technology? To investigate it means to investigate the totality of …

Against the Megamachine Read More »